emjay, for some reason, I didn't see your 31 Aug 06 - 05:16 PM
post when I responded to Dave's post earlier this evening.

I have read that post and I don't think it was pompous at all.

I'm not sure I understood what your teacher was trying to convey with her statement. Maybe describing the people's race wasn't pertinent to the conversations and ,therefore, why do it?

While I believe that Jesus' teachings transcends race,in my opinion, the fact that some White people and some Black people and others would be upset if Jesus was depicted as a person who looked like a Middle Eastern man {i.e. brown skinned} is just more evidence of the fact that we {people of the world} have not moved far from an
Euro-centric approach to the world that judges White people as the gold standard and every other people as less than. Using such a standard, Jesus {and God}have to be pictured as White.

It is easy to see how this Eurocentric approach is detrimental to the self esteem and the group esteem of non-European people. But I also think that {perhaps in more subtle ways} it is also detrimental to White people.

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Emjay, I look forward to reading more of your posts.

Best wishes, and see you around the 'Cat,

Azizi