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Excellent point. Although I'm not so certain that many were actually shocked at the thought of Jesus being black, because geography seemed to rule out that possbility (or at least didn't rule it in), and thus the question didn't need to be addressed. For example, there is a large percentage of blacks in America who pray to Jesus, and it doesn't seem to have occurred to most of them that Jesus could have been black. The irony is that most don't seem to have seen him as brown skinned either. It seems that in a choice between seeing Jesus as white, and non-white (but other than black), white is preferable. So prejudice is indeed alive and unwell among us.
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