Metropolitan Museum Sued -- White Jesus Paintings 'Racist' | National Review Online
by Katherine Timpf December 8, 2015
Justin Renel Joseph is demanding that the paintings be removed immediately.
A man is actually suing the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for exhibiting masterpiece paintings of Jesus Christ because Jesus is white and blond in the paintings — and that is racist.
Justin Renel Joseph has filed a lawsuit in the Manhattan Supreme Court alleging that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 demands that the four paintings be removed, according to an article in New York Post.
“They completely changed his race to make him more aesthetically pleasing for white people,” he told the Post. “I’m suing a public venue which by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 can’t discriminate on a protected basis.”
Joseph said that seeing a white Jesus in Ricci’s “The Holy Family with Angels,” Perugino’s “The Resurrection,” Tintoretto’s “The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes” and Granacci’s “The Crucifixion” caused him “personal stress.”
Read more at:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428203/man-suing-museum-exhibiting-paintings-depicting-jesus-white-because-thats-racist?target=author&tid=1274245
Read more at:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428203/man-suing-museum-exhibiting-paintings-depicting-jesus-white-because-thats-racist?target=author&tid=1274245
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