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darkphoenix181 posted...

We actually have his father's whole geneology.
Unless his mom was black, it would be out of place for their kid to be.

Exactly. And we have no idea what Joseph or Mary looked like, so they must have been pretty unremarkable. Thus, my assertion that he must have been able to easily pass for the son of two apparently unremarkable-looking citizens of the Roman province of Judaea, circa the first century CE.

I mention him probably looking like a Palestinian because apparently they're thought to be the closest modern phenotype to the people of that region at that time. Modern reconstructions of his face do seem to match.

As for Cesare Borgia: most modern depictions of him don't just look like a white guy, but a very specific white guy, and that's not an accident. Cesare Borgia was an Italian nobleman in the early 16th century, who otherwise would probably have been most famous for briefly employing Leonardo da Vinci as a military engineer. But his father was Pope Alexander VI, who started a big campaign of putting his son in pictures of Jesus in an attempt to bolster his son's reputation and chances of success. That campaign mostly failed -Cesare was overthrown soon after his father died- but the depiction stuck, and Cesare has been the face of Jesus ever since.

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