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Ay everybody it's-a me white Jesus and I’ve come to break baguettes and share cab sav with some of my favorite sinners -- you guys
I know what you're thinking
Hey white Jesus what's with that outrageous accent? Well
Like the rest of white Jesus it’s vaguely European and depends on your frame of reference
After all God may have created us all in His image, but white Jesus was created in the image of these who were trying to make a sale
Who doesn't have a nice portrait of white Jesus in their living room?
Or a little statue of yours truly with a lamb? or maybe me as a baby in a manger with white Mary and white white Jospeh and white angels and white shepherds and some vaguely non-white wise men
They had to travel a long way to get to the land of Caucasia and bring me the smelly gifts
White Jesus just makes a better present when he looks like the rest of the family
Didn't your grandmother trace your genealogy all the way back to the house of David (hon hon well)
Just like white Jesus, lineage is important
Watch as they nail me to their family tree and wash me white root and stem
slake my thirst with a sponge soaked in vinegar wine to sour my history
Trade in my sandals for Birkenstocks
My coiled hair for auburn locks
My craft linen for white sheets
after all
who doesn't like wearing white sheets?
Just like your family tree I am a self-portrait of poor white renaissance artists who could only afford a mirror for a model
How wonderful to get a whole religion to worship your image
Cast all of my sculptures from marble and alabaster
Make me as white as sushi burrito or great harvest flatbread
Tell everyone that doesn't look like white Jesus that no matter how Christ-like they live their lives they will never look like salvation
Play up the blackness of their souls
How much can that weigh a person down
Gesture to the stained glass and comment how beautiful the light looks coming through my creamy complexion
I am the exodus of Egypt
this is what Palestine probably looks like, right?
No refugee will ever look like me
Keep citing the facts of Scripture and the evidence of illustrations and now
look at me
white Jesus
Doesn't my accent seem so much less outrageous in comparison to the rest of me?
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Jesse Parent

Jesse Parent

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