Taking down statues and pictures of Jesus would provoke a terrible backlash, and would in any case be wrong in its own terms.
Portrayals of Jesus in the West do tend to be white, so the trick is to bring in representations of Him from elsewhere, not in place of those, but alongside them.
Depicting Him as the ancient indigenous Christians of the Middle East have always done, as looking like themselves, would raise a lot of very pertinent questions in a lot of people's minds.
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