No Shaun King, depictions of Jesus as white is not White Supremacy.
With all the craziness going on the United States and the tearing down of statues and monuments, activist Shaun King has come out against “white depictions” of Jesus, stating that it is a form of white supremacy ( https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1275106946916499456?lang=en ). He has also unfortunately allegedly received multiple death threats over this tweet, which I do not condone in the slightest. What I want to do, is look at the content of his tweet, and see if there is any reason to think that depictions of Jesus as a white man are any form of white supremacy. Spoiler alert, Mr. King is grasping at straws here, as best as I can tell. We are going to look at artwork from around the world and show that Jesus, and sometimes Mary, are depicted as the ethnicity of the time/culture. I acknowledge that there are some denominations that are uncomfortable with visual depictions of Jesus and we could have avoided the problem altogether, but alas, here we are.