I have asked the same question
Back when I was younger I used to waste my time arguing with the fundamentalist-evangelical wackos thinking they might actually listen to reason and fact (until I realized most of them had brains like rotted cheese whey). I used to mention that Jesus was probably closed to being black than white. Some would get really mad at me and give me the hell threat and others would get very concerned for me and give me the hell threat. Different evangelicals at different times told me there was a smaller tribe of blue eyed blond white people living in the area of the Middle East that Jesus came from. He could never have been anything but white in their small minds. I never once spoke to one who agreed that Jesus would have been dark skinned.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Mon 23 Mar 2009, 12:14, Reply)