Epilepsy aside, everyone knows Jesus was also a Jew. And no self-respecting Afrocentric this side of J.A. Rogers, the chronicler of all sorts of people you didn’t know were Black, would let go of the one-drop rule for Christ’s sake. So the next time you let go a “funny-he-doesn’t-look-Jewish” guffaw while watching a rerun of In Living Color’s “Menachem! I’ve just met a boy named Menachem!” skit, remember: The savior of the Christian world suggests otherwise. Yet does Jesus say anything about the complexion of the United States today, in 1997? Sure, there was Sammy Davis, Jr., but many Jews struggle to name other Black Jews. Frequently, I find, they they stumble at the postulation that in almost every Reform or Conservative synagogue, there is at least one Black Jew.