Sentence examples for white jesus from inspiring English sources
"Save me, white Jesus," it goes.
Father Nugent hastily replaced the black Jesus with a white Jesus -- which Father Carter has now stained a dark brown.
Now, in the silence of the church, visions floated above my head: The Last Supper, with a white Jesus surrounded by disciples of all colors, and, outside the open door behind him, the Haitian hillsides rising away.
He came to Islam not because of specific truth-claims about God, but because "those Arabic prayers gave me the right soap to wash myself clean of America, my father, my stepfather, white Jesus, and all of the ignorant small-town" classmates at his Catholic high school.
In adding black art and icons, in some cases a black Jesus, to their churches, black religious leaders seek to make Christianity relevant to their congregations, who seek hope but sometimes find little solace in the idea of worshiping a white Jesus, given the history of slavery and racism in this country.
It's transgressive to see a young black man portrayed that way, just as it is to see the King of Pop portrayed in Equestrian Portrait of King Philip II (Michael Jackson) replete with pink cherubs to watch over him; to see the chiseled form of a black man in the pose of a white Jesus in Sleep; to see a black man in a vest and a halo cast in stained glass in Wiley's Saint Amelie.
Medieval artists portrayed him as a slavering brute, deploying a racist arsenal of Jewish and African stereotypes to contrast him with the lily-white Jesus.
The plywood booth, in the shape of a hexagon, featured black-and-white Jesus imagery on the outside and a padded, soundproofed room on the inside.
Accordingly, slavery, Jim Crow and American apartheid left no bitter taste, for we are all-forgiving, white-Jesus-loving saints subject to no natural human reaction akin to anger.
That, and loads of moanin' low about Jesus, the white savior of the black oppressed.
The long coda to the multifaceted Brazos revolves around White intoning "Jesus Christ/ Is our Lord/ Jesus Christ/ He is your friend", over a bobbling bassline while trumpets, choirs and backing singers finally cut loose.
