by Tim Wise
University of Dayton
" ...it was pure racial resentment and nothing else leading the white woman, child in tow, to say to her friend, "don't you think it's silly to have these Black Santas? Everybody's trying to be so P.C. I mean, come on, a Black Santa? Everyone knows Santa is white." " ...the earliest representations of Jesus, Mary, and Christ's disciples appear in the catacombs of Rome, where the first Christians, known as Essenes buried their dead. All of these portrayals picture a dark-skinned Messiah. In addition, during the time of Roman Emperor Justinian II, the Empire minted a gold coin that pictured Jesus. This coin, which today can be viewed in the British Museum, shows a man with clearly non-white facial features and tightly curled hair, consistent with the description of Christ offered in the Book of Revelations, wherein it is noted that Jesus had hair like wool, feet the color of burnt brass, and resembled jasper and sardine stones: both of which were brown in color."
Ancient Catacomb Painting and Coin, Black Jesus
Blacked Out Through Whitewash by SuZar
Christ, " ...according to the Bible itself, called the "Lamb of God" with kinky hair compared with lamb's wool, feet the color of burnt brass (Rev. 1:14,15), and a likeness resembling jasper and sardine stone (Rev. 4:3) ..."
Hating in the Name of God (Racism and Violence)
by Benjamin Radford
Writer and Managing Editor
Skeptical Inquirer Magazine
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