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Bible Belt Summary
Hughes imagines Jesus coming back as a black man and being denied entry to segregationist churches.
Bible Belt Analysis
Hughes' thought-provoking poem asks the reader to imagine Jesus as a black man being scorned by segregationists and in so doing identifies the plight of blacks with the plight of Jesus, who died at the hands of the small-minded and hateful.
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