There was a very good TV show called "Night Gallery" back in the 80's. It was a kind of resurrection of "Twilight Zone", narrated and often written by the great Rod Serling. There was a Christmas episode of an old Jewish guy ill in bed (Edgar G. Robinson) diverting his grandson's worry with tales of the Messiah, and he describes His coming as "looming and black". When the old man lapses into unconsciousness, his grandson runs up and down the streets looking for the Messiah. He settles on a black man (Yaphet Kotto) who asks the kid why he thinks he's the Messiah. The kid looks up at him and says:

"Because you're big, you're black, and you loom."

My brother and I thought that was a great line and we've recycled it for years.