The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for November 08, 2011

I don’t think he looks like anyone since he is all in your head, everybody’s always trying to claim a fictional character to their race.

A man that called himself Jesus around the time that the bible talks about did indeed exist. It’s not fictional. The things attributed to this man, though, are up to debate. As for his race, I find it telling that the bible does not mention it at all. It’s not important. And once again, this is a lesson that we should learn from, but refuse to, because we love to hate.

Jesus was Jewish. The bible totally says that.

Ron Cobb did a cartoon based on what’s my line where the contestants are, the catholic Jesus, the Protestant Jesus & the Jewish Jesus. It’s one of my favorites.

Jesus was certainly Jewish — but in that part of the world, at that time in history, the Jews would have looked decidedly more Semitic and dark-skinned than those nowadays in the western world, who are mostly from northern Europe and Russia. Jesus may actually have looked more like Yassar Arafat…how well would that go over with Jews and Christians today? :)

Well said SCAATY

@Scatty_423: Even though European jews are lighter skinned than Moroccan, Yemenite, etc. Jews, their DNA is similar to each other. I’m of European Jewish descent – as a baby I had blond hair – yet my DNA says I’m TOTALLY Middle eastern.

PS As for my Avatar, my Y-chromosome goes back to central Asia and may very well be Uyghur

This discussion reminds me of the debate over whether Heimdall should have been played by a black man in ‘Thor’.

The Short answer is-Who cares? If Jesus were to watch the movie (And I’m not entirely convinced he would) Would he care about the race of the man playing him? No.