Christ resurrected as black revolutionary

[emad]

Rory Carroll in Johannesburg
Saturday January 21, 2006
The Guardian


He is not meek, he is not blond and he most definitely is not white. A new interpretation of the Bible has cast Jesus Christ as a revolutionary fighting oppression in contemporary Africa.

Billed as the world's first black Jesus film, Son of Man, which premieres tomorrow at the Sundance film festival in Utah in the US, challenges Hollywood depictions of a western-looking messiah with a gritty portrayal of a political activist who rallies a township.

Instead of robes and homilies about turning the other cheek, this Jesus wears jeans and T-shirts and urges supporters to resist - peacefully - a tyrannical regime in an unnamed southern African country which resembles Zimbabwe. A collaboration between Spier films and the Dimpho Di Kopane, a theatre and film ensemble, the feature, made in South Africa, was shot in rural Eastern Cape and in Khayelitsha, a township outside Cape Town plagued by poverty and crime.

South African audiences who viewed a rough cut responded positively, but the makers were braced for controversy at Sundance, which is one of America's leading festivals, producer Camilla Driver said yesterday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,1691646,00.html

[KyuzoGator]

1. Resurrected? Christ was a black revolutionary the first time.

Just sayin'.

[Christa]

2. Help me

dying of laughter here at those lily white christians :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

[KyuzoGator]

5. Of course, there were TONS of pasty white guys in Nazareth 2000 years ago!

Ahem.

[joeybee12]

3. Lord have mercy! Who could possibly think a man living in Palestine

around the years 30 AD (or BCE, if you will) could possibly be black, or even dark-skinned, given the fact that 100% of the people in that time and place were!

Come on people, my lily-white photo of Jesus is divinely inspired!


(Sarcasm intended).

[skooooo]

4. Wish I could see this!