May I remind Grab and Guest if they {either or both} need such reminding that-particularly in the United States, "black" as a referent for a race includes people who are very very dark skinned through very very light skinned. There certainly are a significant number of people in this racial grouping who look like Semetic Middle Eastern people.

But even if you said that Jesus probably looked like a Middle Eastern person then and now-it seems to me that you have to take into consideration the fact that-at least nowadays- there is also a wide range of skin complexions for Middle Eastern people.

There appears to be some documentation now of what people looked like who lived in the same area Jesus did. Given that documentation and given the wide color continuum of Black Americans, I believe that the statement that Jesus could have been mistaken for a Black man is accurate-as long as we are talking about the definition of "Black man" being the one used for Black Americans.

Perhaps it would have been more accurate to say that Jesus lookes like a certain type of Black man.

And if racial profiling of Middle Eastern looking people officially occurs, and the historical Jesus were to come back and attempt to board a plane, he would be subject to racial profiling just like other non-White men.