White-Skinned Jesus Paintings Are Racist
So says a lawsuit. A New Yorker is suing the Metropolitan Museum of Art for displaying fair-skinned and blonde-haired artworks of Jesus Christ, claiming that they are racist and made him suffer from emotional distress. Justin Renel Joseph, 33, filed a complaint with the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on November 30, in which he describes seeing “anti-Semitic, racist, and offensive aesthetic whitewashing†of Jesus during a trip to the museum on November 26. What do I think? I think that if every even mildly controversial painting were removed from the Met that we’d be left with virtually nothing on display. We’re turning into a nation of wimps, unable to read a book or gaze at an artwork without being “offended” or “triggered.”
