He also wasn't as black as the image ironically makes him look... he'd have looked more like a modern Syrian, someone on the lighter end of complexion for the region.
He also wasn't POOR, his father was a craftsman and he himself was one. That's not poor, that's safely middle class for the time period. In fact, he might have been rich. He and his father were carpenters, in the middle east. Wood products were more valued due to the relative scarcity of wood.
The bible, at large, is also very nationalistic. Kings are given power by grace of God and one can make a fairly strong case for the nation state. Can't recall if Jesus himself is said to have commented on them though.
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tl;dr: Jesus could have been black or black-adjacent (unlikely), he also might have been euro-white (again, unlikely) or even a red-head Celt as there was a population next door in Turkey (again, unlikely) and as the silk road was near by, Arab, Persian (also unlikely) and even possibly Azn (extremely unlikely as at the time this would have been very rare and likely attracted some comments; sorry chinamen, gook & AznPacIs is the only races we can nearly definitively rule out for Jesus).
Most likely he would have looked something like modern-day Coptic or jordanian royal family member.
Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ got a Jesus of roughly correctish, if a little bit on the pale side.
(Jesus as tradesman would have almost assuredly been more tanned on his face.)
Several world events have made the modern Middle East look quite different thant historically.
Israel around the time of Jesus would have had mostly people who looked a bit more like Jordan or central Iraq does today. Due to the influx of post-WWII das juden, modern-day israel is almost certainly more
white pale than historically. The Crusades also imparted everything north of Egypt with tons of Latin (read:French) DNA, but modern-day Syria has been ethnographically fucked up since the bronze age as it was home to the primary trading ports on the Mediterranean, so had populations from all over the Med as well as people further east.
Islam made the whole region a few shades darker. Greece in particular got blacked by the Ottomans so most modern greeks, especially in the south, are a bit darker than historical Greeks would have been, especially since they had got repeated infusions of DNA from 'barbarian' peoples from their north.
The Ottomans, hilariously enough, made the general population darker but the higher economic strata whiter - basically the Ottoman Turks realized they were complete shit at both warfare and governance, so enslaved & forcefully abducted caucasian youths to run the empire for them.
Anyway, getting back to Black Jesus....
Jesus was likely not full-strength black, as he didn't seem to have acquired the moniker of "The Nubian", but its possible (if unlikely) he had some octoroon action going on. BUT! Even if ethnically he was pale Anglo Jesus, he would not have looked like that as a trades person and would have had a deep tan.
In any case, as Jesus was said to have at least some genes from a native Jewish royal lineage, we can assume that Jesus wasn't full immigrant stock, and would have had generally semetic features.
