WHO IS YOUR JESUS=HOW DOES HE LOOK???
how would you decode the growin-up
experiences that would cause a Black adult product of integratin, to look at
another Black couple and say, "She should have married a white man, or at
least, a man of lighter color to improve the children's looks and color. Look how Black they (children) are. They sure have
BAD hair, it must be greasy to look OK.
Look at my sister. She got good
hair. It nearly like white hair. She has to wash out the oil every
day." Or listen to what a Black
migrant woman said to me in Homestead, Florida, in 1989 as she looked at a
picture of Black Jesus in a copy of EBONY magazine; "These Black folks
must be crazy making Jesus Black. Let
me show you what Jesus look like.
Pointing to a copy of the King James version of the Bible printed by
Gideon. See Jesus is a blue eyed, blond
haired, white man. The Bible is always right.
These niggers have really gone crazy." The real tragedy was that
her small children were looking on and listening. Another generation was being lost at the very moment.
