Back in the 60s, I was very skinny and had long hair and a beard. Some people thought I looked like Charles Manson, others thought I looked like Jesus. There were some black ladies who seemed to like the way I looked, bless them. Another white friend of mine, who had a similar appearance, received similar attention. He pointed out to me that the only white people that a lot of black people trusted were two skinny guys with beards: Abraham Lincoln and Jesus Christ. Sometimes I would pass a black person on the street I didn’t even know, and they would say “hi Jesus.“. One followed it up with “you look like Jesus in the flicks. The real Jesus was like me, he was a brother.”