[Michael20774]

In the past, the reason for biblical figures being white may have been because they were produced and directed mostly by white folk (though I’ve heard that Cecil DeMille was Jewish), but I’d say that today, another reason may be that people have seen these figures depicted as white for so long! For example, I was in Wal-Mart a while back. Well, my hair is shoulder-length. A black kid pointed at me, and told his mother, ‘Look! It’s Jesus!’ However, to be fair, in all the movies I’ve seen, Satan has also been played by a white person. The only religiously-themed movies I remember seeing with a black person as a central character are Dogma, which made fun of the very practice you’re asking about, and What Dreams May Come, where the main character’s pediatrician happened to be black.

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