Jesus Christ *0003
I grew up used to seeing Jesus as a white man—with sleek golden hair and glowing porcelain skin. I honestly thought that’s what he looked like. Even the angels, and those Jews and Gentiles from the Bible? Yeah, I thought they were all foreigners—white people from some faraway land. That’s how I spent my early, unripe fruit days—blissfully unaware, soaking in a Sunday school version of the world. But eventually, as my brain ripened and started stewing in a mess of thoughts, temptations, trivia, and growing pains, I came to realize: Wait a minute... that’s not how it was at all. Lo and behold, I learned about the brutal, heartbreaking history of the Jewish people—a small, marginalized group often dismissed as primitive in the grand narratives of empire. Turns out, they weren’t blonde Europeans with British accents. Who’d have thought? https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=147634977961987&set=pb.100081464553989.-2207520000&locale=gl_ES Sometime in early 2001, the BBC...