To add a bit to that: Greeks and Turks are pretty much physically identical, but one is seen as “whiter” than the other (guess which). The eastern end of the Mediterranean saw all sorts of people from northern Africa and southern Europe because of the ease of sailing across the coast, even with the relative low technology of ships from 3,000+ years ago.
If the jews of today, especially the ones that never left the Levant, are a faithful picture of their ancestors of ~2000 years ago, then it’s not too much of a stretch to assume Jesus could’ve been white, or “white”.
Side note: gotta love (/s) how much importance is still given to skin color. I’d love to see people throwing hex codes around instead of color names. “We don’t like fceadc here!”
Yea I can see how it looks like I was calling Jesus a hobo when I was trying to say he simply wasn’t a uber wealthy guy during his time like the dude was born in a barn I don’t know much about Christianity but I do know the entire point of Jesus was that he was a normal dude with magic miracle powers
To add a bit to that: Greeks and Turks are pretty much physically identical, but one is seen as “whiter” than the other (guess which). The eastern end of the Mediterranean saw all sorts of people from northern Africa and southern Europe because of the ease of sailing across the coast, even with the relative low technology of ships from 3,000+ years ago.
If the jews of today, especially the ones that never left the Levant, are a faithful picture of their ancestors of ~2000 years ago, then it’s not too much of a stretch to assume Jesus could’ve been white, or “white”.
Side note: gotta love (/s) how much importance is still given to skin color. I’d love to see people throwing hex codes around instead of color names. “We don’t like fceadc here!”
Tbh the only thing I have as a counter argument is that he was poor and likely had a tan
I mean, he was a carpenter. He was literally working outside on houses all day.
With days off working inside the workshop fixing a chair or a table, i’d wager
Carpenters have been able to support a family throughout history until the very recent present.
Yea I can see how it looks like I was calling Jesus a hobo when I was trying to say he simply wasn’t a uber wealthy guy during his time like the dude was born in a barn I don’t know much about Christianity but I do know the entire point of Jesus was that he was a normal dude with magic miracle powers
Kill #FFFFFF’ey!
I’ve never seen a #000000 before!
I get you. Let me introduce you to colourism.
https://news.yahoo.com/voices-thandiwe-newton-tearful-speech-173129185.html