“Jesus Was White” Say Evangelicals Who Don’t Know Geography, History, Or Genetics
A local Evangelical Facebook group, “Americans For Acknowledging Jesus Was Arab But Not Arab-Looking” has spent the last few weeks attempting to get the hashtag “#JesusWasWhite” trending by spamming Facebook and Twitter users all over the nation to “spread the word.”
However, the hashtag has not “turnt up,” like the group’s mission statement pledged to accomplish. Instead, the counter-hashtag “#JesusWasBrown” went viral on social media in direct response.
The group’s administrator, Mark Haddocky, held a press conference to discuss his perspective on the controversy.
“I don’t understand why this has become such a culture war thing where the Left has to rub it in our faces that Jesus was Arab,” Haddocky said. “We know that. Of course we know Israel is in the Arab part of the Middle East, but Israel is, like, kind of white now thanks to post-war immigration from Eastern Europe. So maybe Jesus was white, too, or had a rare skin condition where his skin had less melanin than the people around him. Ever think of that? European artists would not have painted Jesus, Mary, Joseph and all the Bible people as white for centuries and centuries if it wasn’t true. They wouldn’t just make that up! And, besides, Jesus saved mankind. Who does that sound like? White people…
