the Jews of Jesus’ time considered the Samaritans untouchable and people like the Canaanites less than a dog. Jesus was not a racist – he had Simon, a Canaanite, as one of His disciples. He stayed in Samaria, ate and slept there ignoring the social discrimination of the time. The episode of the Syrophoenician woman in the bible is not an evidence to the racist Jesus but to the opposite – the all-loving inclusive love He showed to mankind irrespective of their background.

In fact, Jesus can’t be a racist as He, as God, created everybody equally in the first place. He never discriminates mankind in the name of race, colour of skin, nationality, language or social status. He died for all and lives in all.