White is 4 Jesus cause he's white and red is 4 Jesus'blood and the candycane makes a J 4 Jesus

[aGameOfThrones]

"White is for Jesus because he's white and red is for Jesus' blood and if you flip the candy cane upside down it makes a J for Jesus."

Don't adjust your computer screen. You saw that correctly. It's a passage from a religious book called "The Legend of the Candy Cane," which was read by first graders at DeBary Elementary School in Florida this holiday season because it was supplied by their teachers as learning material.

According to WESH 2 News, the book has since been removed from classrooms, as some parents were upset that statement was made that Jesus was white.

A school spokeswoman said: "It was meant to be used as a resource, not to teach religion."

A resource for what, exactly, is unknown. But that public school teachers - this book was allegedly used in all the first grade classrooms at the school, not just one - think it was appropriate not just to discuss Jesus' skin color but Jesus at all is astonishing.

Religion has no place in public schools. None.

Save the blather about the war on Christmas because at least in this country, there is no such thing. Although if there is, Christmas is winning. By a landslide.

http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/florida-teacher-tells-students-quot-jesus-white-quot-190000388.html

[satchelmcqueen]

wouldnt jesus be more brown and muslim looking??

[pcosmar]

wouldnt jesus be more brown and muslim looking??

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YuXASTOL6H0/STnP5x8Ci4I/AAAAAAAAARk/K46zTpJ0QI0/s400/chocolateshowandjustborn+060.jpg

You would think that in an educational setting, they could just give a true history of candy canes.
http://inventors.about.com/od/foodrelatedinventions/a/candy_canes.htm


Around the seventeenth century, European-Christians began to adopt the use of Christmas trees as part of their Christmas celebrations. They made special decorations for their trees from foods like cookies and sugar-stick candy. The first historical reference to the familiar cane shape goes back to 1670, when the choirmaster at the Cologne Cathedral in Germany, bent the sugar-sticks into canes to represent a shepherd's staff. The all-white candy canes were given out to children during the long-winded nativity services.

The clergymen's custom of handing out candy canes during Christmas services spread throughout Europe and later to America. The canes were still white, but sometimes the candy-makers would add sugar-roses to decorate the canes further.

[DamianTV]

This ought to be fun for a spectacle of contention:

Barber Shop Poles

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.dailyfinance.com/media/2010/08/symbols-barber-pole-186cs083110.jpg


The red, white and blue stripes in the barber shop pole are meant to represent blood, bandages and veins. For thousands of years, barbers didn't just cut hair and shave beards -- they performed surgery, dentistry, and more.

[aGameOfThrones]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YuXASTOL6H0/STnP5x8Ci4I/AAAAAAAAARk/K46zTpJ0QI0/s400/chocolateshowandjustborn+060.jpg

You would think that in an educational setting, they could just give a true history of candy canes.
http://inventors.about.com/od/foodrelatedinventions/a/candy_canes.htm


Wouldn't that candy cane be Jewish since you removed the tip?

http://i.imgur.com/6Yar1xH.gif

[samforpaul]

I thought the white part of the candy cane was symbolic for Christ's purity.

[pcosmar]

Wouldn't that candy cane be Jewish -----------------------------------?


Well,, Jesus was Jewish.

[oyarde]

wouldnt jesus be more brown and muslim looking??

I dunno , Northwest Semitic /Aramaic type peoples would have looked similar to Canaanites , Phoenicians , I imagine.....

[The Bavarian]

Jesus was japanese.

[MRK]

"DeBary Elementary School"

The Elementary School of Barry (Obama)

Kind of appropriate when you think about the Fedcoats' involvement in the quality of the schools.

[MelissaCato]

I don't know but - Merry Christmas everyone !!

[Christian Liberty]

I always thought the white meant Jesus' purity, not his skin color. Jesus wasn't white (skinned) of course.

[oyarde]

I don't know but - Merry Christmas everyone !!

Merry Christmas Cato !

[Danke]

Jesus was japanese.

No that's Santa Claus. And he is Ainu.

[MelissaWV]

...
You would think that in an educational setting, they could just give a true history of candy canes.
http://inventors.about.com/od/foodrelatedinventions/a/candy_canes.htm

That was actually my gripe as I read this.

I could see the passage/book being used to illustrate the way popular items wind up having a varied and colorful collection of explanations for their origins, though; not sure why people have to get offended because of it being "white for Jesus." "White" people aren't even actually white. I wonder if one of the students could get offended at being compared to colorless minty candy.