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Throw Back Thursday - Book Club Adventures 2017 "I thought it was because she wanted be black like everyone else in church because maybe God liked black people better and one afternoon on the way from church, I asked her if God was black or white. A deep sigh, boy.....God's not black, he's not white, He's a spirit. Does he like black or white people better? He's a spirit, he loves people. What's a Spirit? A spirit is a spirit. What color is God's spirit? It doesn't have a color, she said. God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color." quoted by James McBride - The Color of Water - A Black Man's Tribute His White Mother Last week, I was at the Annual West Virginia Quaker Gathering. We always have a table for book exchanges. The John Grisham book immediately decided call my and go home with me. The Color of Water by James McBride was telling me take it home but I wavered between "maybe yes, maybe no, I'm not sure" but it eventually made it's way my luggage for the journey back Greenbrier County. Later that evening, my good friend and roomie were discussing our fantastic finds at the book exchange table. She revealed that she had the conversation I did with The Color of Water but regretted that she opted not take it. Voila!!!! She will be able take it her house at our next Book Club meeting. The book is about a black man's tribute his White Jewish mother. She converted Christianity Her husband became a minister, founded the New Brown Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York. They wanted rent a building for a Church but the owner refused upon seeing the husband. The wife met the owner and signed the contract. He was a tad bit surprised when he saw who the Pastor and Congregation were. The woman was disowned by her family and they even held Siva for her. (Seven day ritual for the dead) It appears that she had a higher purpose in the Black Community. "I felt frustrated to live in a world that considers the color of your face an immediate political statement. It took years before I began to accept the fact that the nebulous "white man's world" wasn't as free as it looked; that class, luck, religion factored in well." quoted by James McBride - The Color of Water.   Abracadabra  |
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NEITHER was a wonderful book that I found for my Grandson. Abracadabra
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I've never had a problem with people of any color, but I remember my gramma being "leery" of black men. I found this strange because in our little town, we had no black men, the only ones we saw were in the city..... then I came to realize that her fear was of all strange men, not just black ones. I also had this notion that it was only white people who were racially prejudiced. That got blown out of the water when I was in nurse's training with a white woman who was married to a black man. She told me stories of the nastiness towards her in her husband's family, only because she was white. Her family accepted her husband, but she said not all of the neighbors did. Ignorance comes in all colors. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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Sounds like a very interesting book indeed. I must it out on my kindle. 
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