-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger
Megyn Kelly, on her Fox News show, declared: “Jesus was a white man, too. It’s like we have, he’s a historical figure that’s a verifiable fact, as is Santa, I just want kids to know that.” While I grant that Jesus was a historical figure, Santa was only based on a historical figure, a monk named Nicholas. Nicholas was born around 260 A.D. in Patara, in present-day Turkey. Nicholas was probably Greek although little is known about his parents. While it make make Kelly uncomfortable, Nicolas certainly wouldn’t have looked as white as Santa appears in the Coca-Cola ads.
According to Reza Aslan, Jesus was a Galilean, a Palestinian Jew. He would have looked like the average Palestinian looks today. Aslan cites those features: “that would mean dark features, hairy, probably a longer nose, black hair.” Hardly the Jesus seen in so many European paintings. There is great psychological benefit to portraying Jesus as “one of your own.”
In Chinese art (left) we see the Mary and Jesus are depicted with Chinese attributes. 
In Japanese art (right), Jesus is depicted with Japanese characteristics. The artists may never have seen a foreigner and had no model, other than their fellow countrymen, on which to base their depictions. When trying to attract converts, it is best to remember that people naturally relate to someone who looks like them.
Modern forensic techniques have been used on a skull of a first century Jewish male to create a model of Jesus’ face shown at left. The skin color was chosen as indicative of someone from a desert climate. This image contrasts greatly with the Jesus found in European paintings.
Why is a white skin color for Jesus so important to Kelly?
Many married Christians think they can grow their relationship by inviting Jesus into their marriage. This spiritual polyandry would be less attractive when a non-white Jesus is envisioned.
The portrayal of Jesus has been used throughout history as a political tool. For those who advocate immigration restrictions, a blond-haired blue-eyed Jesus sends a clear message of exclusion.
H/T: Paul Harvey and Edward J. Blum, Darren E. Grem, BBC News, James Nye, Max Fisher.
Nope – just foaming at the mouth.
I’m here at a Starbucks and everyone is outside;
maybe I can put a coffee maker in my PC bag and run for it!
Meanwhile, if your busy schedule doesn’t cross paths with the lady’s
My other wish is that fast food places would be struck by lightening when their pictures look so great and the product they serve you looks like chit!
Raff keep listening to msnbc lowest rated propaganda outlet. Do you get a tingley feeling up your leg when you hear Obama speak.
Megan Kelly’s comment was tongue in cheek.
David,
The facts rarely get in the way of Fox News.
Elaine,
One urban myth at a time please! 🙂
bfm, …. LOL, don’t do it !!! I have house sat several times where a kuerig was square on the kitchen counter. I may have drank 10 cups of coffee per day while I was there. My mr coffee at home makes a great 1st cup, and maybe a good 2nd one. But that’s it, I do have a 3rd at times, but the thrill is gone by then. The kuerig delivers a fresh aromatic, tasty, delicious cup every time. . I believe I am a coffee addict when the product is top shelf. I can’t do coffee in the pm any longer and sleep well. I believe if I had a keurig my life would go down the tubes. I’d probably end up dumpster diving behind starbucks.
Breaking news. Megyn Kelly replies:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/14/megyn-kelly-defends-santa-comments_n_4443619.html
“She said that her telling “kids” that Santa “just is white” was a “tongue-in-cheek” attempt at humor, though many regarded it as a bizarre effort to negate the fact that Santa is not, in fact, “just” white, but is often depicted as one of a variety of different races.
But Kelly saw a broader theme: the danger of “the knee-jerk instinct by so many to race-bait and to assume the worst of people, especially the people employed by the very powerful Fox News Channel.”
For good measure, though, she acknowledged that she was in the wrong when it came to Jesus’s whiteness.”
When it comes down to it all good FOX’ers are always “misunderstood” and “victimized” when called on their stupidity.
Mike Spindell;
You should have been with me at the church pot luck (next to a school with most of the teachers in attendance) where they wanted to hang me because I NEVER (from the day they were born) allowed my children to be cajoled into believing in Santa, Easter, etc. (Though many found it really strange that one born on Halloween – refused to celebrate it).
Parents and teachers alike wanted me jailed;
and/or my children taken away as if they had been abused.
The school principal (also a Deacon) sought to calm everyone down and figured he would put me in my place – on how mean a parent yours truly was.
When he asked me how I would dare deny my kids their “G-d given right”
I responded
It seems to me that you all are the ones tossing G-d and his son out the window. You demand that I tell my children never to waiver in their faith by starting them out with a foundation of worldly lies that gives credit for my hard spent monies to show them how much I love them and honor “Christmas” by – instead – giving credit to a phony bologna man in a red & white suit.
The silence thereafter – was deafening.
bigfatmike;
I’ll pass the word around on your desire. Please – by all means – pass around my wish (reference of the heretofore article on man spouse marriages) – that Sandra Bullock and/or Jamie Lee Curtis have me as their 6th or 7th. (BTW – could one be married to 2 different persons who are married to 2 different persons)!
@LaserDLiquidator
You got it…not a problem. The next time I see Sandra or Jamie I will fix that up for you. I just hope you have a note from your doctor… not prone to heart palpitations or anything like that.
White privilege en fuego. Fox news box en fuego.
The ugly American personified…. and celebrated..
Elaine;
Jesus (by all accounts) was male.
Be that as it may, I do get (and concur) with your suggestion.
Everyone knows Santa and Jesus are white because there are photographs. Obviously, Santa’s wife, Virgin Mary, is also white. If she was black, Jesus would look like Obama.
The White Son of Santa provides conclusive proof of the lovely Megyn Kelly’s common sense declaration of what everyone already knew.
“Jesus was the son of God.”
This is a guy who could walk on water and rise from the dead. I am pretty sure he could look like anybody and anything he wanted: Tommy Lee Jones, Heavy D, a can of asparagus with a cute turned up Irish nose and perfect white teeth.
It is one thing to see something of yourself or your affinity group in Jesus.
What I don’t get is the belief that others cannot or should not see a similar relation for themselves or their affinity group.
Well, I have to get back to the important issue of the season… trying to put the X back in secular, commercial X-ma$. Now… who should I hint to about the really slick personal serving size coffee maker that I have been wanting?
I actually find her perpetuation of Santa Claus an even stupider comment then that on Jesus. Santa Claus, as presented in the US is the figure that probably raises the most religious doubt in the mind of Christian children. I knew Santa Claus was from my earliest years. We lived in an apartment. There was no chimney of course for that “jolly elf” to slide down with his bounty of gifts. Children may be innocent but they are not stupid. Admittedly as a non-Christian it seems to me an outrage that what is the most happy day in the Christian holiday pantheon, has been hijacked into a commercialism that is represented by a ridiculously mythical figure drawn for a Coke ad.
just remember that the four people you see on Elaine’s link @9:22a.m. had to be spray painted with make-up to look the way they do.
so santa is really sort of a splotchy, pinkish-pale with rosacea.
Laser,
“I’ve always thought it to be quaint that – when all the WASPs get to the ‘Pearly Gates’ – that a non-Caucasian is standing there with his hand out.”
How about a non-Caucasian standing there with HER hand out?
I’ve always thought it to be quaint that – when all the WASPs get to the ‘Pearly Gates’ – that a non-Caucasian is standing there with his hand out.
As they go – “Oh G-d, not here too, don’t we get a rest here, from ‘these’ people”…
They then step on the cloud highway, through the gates and immediately fall through to the pit below.
When they wail in agony – lord, lord, why are ye forsaking us;
Jesus (the man sitting outside the gate with his hand open) – says:
“We gave you all the wealth of the world and comfort too, as the inferior race of white people, who lacked the color of life. In the hopes that such a life on earth, for the short span of time of 100 years or less; would bring forth thanks and compassion for all of mankind.
Even then, with your pockets and bellies full, your bodies warm and a roof over your head; You Spurned, Spat and Looked Down Upon the Lord G-d’s people.
The Negro Race”!
Now, I ask you – Wouldn’t that be quaint?
People like Megyn Kelly remind me that there is only a very thin layer of civility over a very stabby Kentucky country girl.
A friend of mine, who was an Episcopal priest and clinical psychologist back in Mississippi, had a nicely framed picture of Jesus hanging on his office wall in the clinic.
The picture came from the illustration accompanying a magazine article by famed theologian Harvey Cox. As I recall, he had the illustration blown up to about 11×14, excluding the text. Some of his clients were quite offended.
The illustration was called Laughing Jesus and this is a screen grab of the whole page.
Jesus was Jewish. He was a Semite. Corporations just love it when the “little” people get involved in useless identy squabbles while the corporations run away with the store.
The best thing we can do in these circumstances is ignore Megyn Kelly and move on. There are so many important issues to focus on.
Nal,
Jesus was the son of God. God the father willed him to be white, doncha know?