Characters refer continually to Jesus’ colour. Mary asks a question that most black mothers ask at some point, whether the authorities are dogging her son because of his skin colour. When discussing the possibility that Jesus is the hoped-for messiah, officials sneer that he is only a black Nazarene. Thomas, the doubter, asks Jesus what it’s like to be different, and Jesus responds that his mother was denied lodging because she was different.
To believers, the fact of Jesus’ existence matters more than what he looked like while he was on earth. No, it’s not the biggest question facing Christians, but what if we all had grown up with a black Jesus?
—Susan Campbell / LATWP
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