Christ is a Nigger,
Beaten and black--
O, bare your back.
Mary is His Mother

 “Christ is a nigger” in two senses: in the historical sense as a brown-skinned Jew like other Jews of his day, with a brown-skinned mother—both later adopted into the white West and given a lily-white heavenly father; and in the symbolic sense of Jesus as an alien presence, preaching an exacting spirituality, a foreign religion as it were, much as the black man, with his different color and culture, is an alien presence in the South. Each is a scapegoat sacrificed for the society’s sins. 
 - Onwuchekwa Jemie 

Christ in Alabama