Social justice activist and pastor Shaun King expressed his disdain on social media over Eurocentric statues of Jesus Christ calling them a “gross form of White supremacy” and asserted that they should be removed.
“Yes, I think the statues of the White European they claim is Jesus should also come down,” King wrote on Twitter, Monday, according to CBN News. “They are a form of White supremacy. Always have been.”
Yes, I think the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down.
They are a form of white supremacy.
Always have been.
In the Bible, when the family of Jesus wanted to hide, and blend in, guess where they went?
EGYPT!
Not Denmark.
Tear them down.
— Shaun King (@shaunking) June 22, 2020
King quipped how the Holy Family retreated to Egypt “to hide” and “blend in” instead of going to Denmark.
In addition to statues, the activist also called for the tearing down of “all murals and stained-glass windows of White Jesus, and his European mother, and their White friends.”
“They are a gross form of White supremacy,” he asserted.
King continued his tirade by saying that “White Jesus is a lie” created as “a tool of White supremacy” and “advanced to help White people use the faith as a tool of oppression.”
He added: “They never would’ve accepted a religion from a Brown man.”
King came under heavy fire from…
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