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An art student in Chicago created a papeir mache Jesus that look like Presidential candidate Sen. Barak Obama. This apparently has casued some people to be revealed as the Bigots that they are.

He wears Jesus' robes and a neon blue halo, looks like Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama and is causing a stir at a Chicago art school. An undergraduate student's papier mache sculpture of Obama as a messianic figure — entitled "Blessing" — went on display Saturday at a downtown gallery run by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

By Monday, word of the piece had spread on political blogs, and the school had been flooded with calls.

David Cordero, 24, made the sculpture for his senior show after noticing all the attention Obama has received since he first hinted he may run for the Presidency.

"All of this is a response to what I've been witnessing and hearing, this idea that Barack is sort of a potential savior that might come and absolve the country of all its sins," Cordero said. "In a lot of ways it's about caution in assigning all these inflated expectations on one individual, and expecting them to change something that many hands have shaped."

Still some are having problems with the idea that Jesus can be a Black Man. Just wait till they find out the the next Messiah will be a Woman...

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