I did not say that Jesus was a Black man; but, what would it matter if He were? While we are not to engage in endless-mindless debate about lineage; as disciples of Christ, we are to defend and bring forth understanding of the Gospel (the truth about the life and purpose of Jesus), as imparted by the Holy Spirit.
Jesus was not a "Black" man.
Which is why I was careful to use the word “symbolism.” Black people, in the definitive, didn’t even exist in Jesus’s era. Black, like White, and so many other terms, even unmentionable ones, is a descriptive “Americanized term” used, more often than not, to separate the races. People, in Jesus’s day, were most often defined by their nationality, and or religion, not their skin color: Asian...