EBOOK Color of Water
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A Black Man&'s Tribute to His White Mother
As a boy in Brooklyn&'s Red Hook projects, James McBride knew his mother was different. But when he asked about it, she&'d simply say &'I&'m light-skinned.&' Later he wondered if he was different too, and asked his mother if he was black or white. &'You&'re a human being,&' she snapped. &'Educate yourself or you&'ll be a nobody!&' And when James asked what colour God was, she said &'God is the colour of water.&' As an adult, McBride finally persuaded his mother to tell her story - the story of a rabbi&'s daughter, born in Poland and raised in the South, who fled to Harlem, married a black man, founded a Baptist church, and put twelve children through college.
As a boy in Brooklyn&'s Red Hook projects, James McBride knew his mother was different. But when he asked about it, she&'d simply say &'I&'m light-skinned.&' Later he wondered if he was different too, and asked his mother if he was black or white. &'You&'re a human being,&' she snapped. &'Educate yourself or you&'ll be a nobody!&' And when James asked what colour God was, she said &'God is the colour of water.&' As an adult, McBride finally persuaded his mother to tell her story - the story of a rabbi&'s daughter, born in Poland and raised in the South, who fled to Harlem, married a black man, founded a Baptist church, and put twelve children through college.