But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker challenges racial prejudice by questioning if God might be black and how society would react.
- In plain terms
- What if God is not white? How would you react?
- What can you take from it?
- Confront racial bias by imagining it reversed in the highest authority.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you react to difference in power?
- What does your faith say about equality?
Another view
The metaphor relies on theological assumptions not everyone shares.
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