Posted on 12/09/2015 7:09:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A man is actually suing the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for exhibiting masterpiece paintings of Jesus Christ because Jesus is white and blond in the paintings †and that is racist.
Justin Renel Joseph has filed a lawsuit in the Manhattan Supreme Court alleging that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 demands that the four paintings be removed, according to an article in New York Post.
"They completely changed his race to make him more aesthetically pleasing for white people," he told the Post. "I'm suing a public venue which by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 can't discriminate on a protected basis."
Joseph said that seeing a white Jesus in Ricci's "The Holy Family with Angels," Perugino's "The Resurrection," Tintoretto's "The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes" and Granacci's "The Crucifixion" caused him "personal stress."
The stress was especially severe, Joseph said, because Jesus had "black hair like wool and skin of bronze color" and he also has "black hair like wool and skin of bronze color."
"The implication that someone who possesses physical features like the plaintiff could not be the important historical and public figure of Jesus Christ . . . caused the plaintiff to feel, among other things, rejected and unaccepted by society," court papers say.
According to Joseph, who is acting as his own lawyer, the paintings are "offensive aesthetic whitewashing" and their display in the museum is "an extreme case of discrimination." Apparently, he does not believe that the fact that the artwork is culturally and historically important is any reason display it in a museum where people go to see culturally and historically important artwork.
Seems pretty convincing to me †but Met spokeswoman Elyse Topalian, (who just must not know quite as much about art as Joseph does,) disagreed:
"When they were painted, it was typical for artists to depict subjects with the same identity as the local audience," Topalian said, according to The Post. "This phenomenon occurs in many other cultures, as well."
-- Katherine Timpf is a reporter for National Review Online.
As my wife would say, “I know how he votes”....
Yep.
Had someone tell me about the "racist" war in Afghanistan. I told him most people in Afghanistan were considered caucasian, and did he think we were racist towards white people.
Not her most flattering screenshot...
“Jesus had “black hair like wool and skin of bronze color””
The Bible says neither of those things, but that doesn’t stop every dumb*** who watched “Malcolm X” from parroting it.
It’s a mangling of a verse from Revelation. That verse wasn’t even describing Jesus when he was a man on earth, it is describing a prophetic vision of the “Lamb of God” in heaven, and it says nothing about “black hair”, it just describes a lamb having wool and hooves... like lamb usually do.
No, the county level court in NY is the ‘Supreme Court’
http://www.nycourts.gov/courts/2jd/kingsclerk/
One of the first things real Americans learn in law school.
The black militants misinterpret a verse from Revelation describing the “Lamb of God” in heaven as a description of Jesus as he was on earth...
But this still won’t stop the museum from possibly voluntarily removing the “offending” pieces anyway just to satisfy the grievance mongers...
There’s also the risk that some of those blm vermin may come in and vandalize them now as a result of this idiot and his frivolous lawsuit.
I think the only description we can get from the gospels is that from his appearance he was visibly Jewish to the woman at the well. So from his clothing and maybe his face he appeared Jewish however you want to interpret that.
When I was in Vietnam during the war, a black guy in my platoon regaled some others with a portrait he had of a “Black Jesus”. I mean, he was black-black, to which I commented, “Okay. So?”, and just drew a momentary blank stare before they went back to their celebration.
“Some Children See Him”
Some children see Him lily white,
The baby Jesus born this night.
Some children see Him lily white,
With tresses soft and fair.
Some children see Him bronzed and brown,
The Lord of heav’n to earth come down.
Some children see Him bronzed and brown,
With dark and heavy hair.
Some children see Him almond-eyed,
This Savior whom we kneel beside.
Some children see Him almond-eyed,
With skin of yellow hue.
Some children see Him dark as they,
Sweet Mary’s Son to whom we pray.
Some children see him dark as they,
And, ah! they love Him, too!
The children in each different place
Will see the baby Jesus’ face
Like theirs, but bright with heavenly grace,
And filled with holy light.
O lay aside each earthly thing
And with thy heart as offering,
Come worship now the infant King.
‘Tis love that’s born tonight!
Jesus was a blue eyed blonde and so was Mary, based on descriptions of them from ancient texts before there were any agendas
Pilate’s letter describing Jesus to Caesar is part of the US Congressional Record
http://www.mariavaltortawebring.com/Pages/015_Jeus_Physical_Appearance.htm
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