The Boy Who Painted Christ Black

This story is about a black boy called Aaron. He is a student in a segregated school in Georgia, he has a big drawing skills and one day he decided to draw a painting for his teacher for her birthday. Aaron drew Christ, but black, she received his present, but the supervisor thought that black people should not have rights and he considered them as animals. When the supervisor saw the painting, he attacked him and said it was a sacrilegious. Then, the principal defended Aaron and followed his beliefs, also he helped him with his future.


The story presents how people can be judge and humiliated only because of the color of their skin or beliefs. This is an important life lesson, that each one of us can make the world a better place, without violence, hate, discrimination and war.


Nowadays, we can find situations about violence of gender, sexual discrimination and racial discrimination, because we do not respect another people. We can not accepted that they think different to us. For that reason, there is intolerance and hate. We need to stop the violence and try to give love.