CHRISTMAS,BLACK PERSPECTIVE/

[harry brown]

AFTER   LISTENING  TO   3  VERSIONS  OF  SILENT  NIGHT,   GREAT   MAHALIA JACKSON'S  VERSION,THE  CLASSIC   VERSION   BY  THE TEMPTATIONS,AND  A   VERSION  BY  THE  IMPRESSIONS//I  WAS  THINKING    WHEN  BLACK CHILDREN  ARE  INVOLVED    IN THE   CHURCH  DOING  A    NATIVITY   SCENCE   OF  THE   BIRTH  OF  JESUS, DO THEY READ  THE SCRIPTURES/SCRIPTURES  DOES  NOT SAY    JESUS WAS  A  WHITE   BABY,LYING  IN  SWADDLING   CLOTHES   LYING IN THE   MANGER//CAN  BLACK CHILDREN  ENVISION  JESUS  BEING  BLACK,NEWS   MEDIA      AND BLACK   PEOPLE  HAVE  A NEGATIVE   OPINION  OF  BLACKNESS   BEING  BEAUTY    AND  POSITIVE,RIGHTEOUS......BLACK BIBLE READERS    IN  BLACK  CHURCHES    , DO  THEY  READ    THE BIBLE   OR   BELIEVE  THE     MONEY  SEEKING  PREACHERS   , WHO ARE      OVERSEER'S/BLACK PEOPLE ARE  SPIRITALLY  ENSLAVED.../NOT  RELIGIOUS,  BUT   IF MARY  AND JOSEPH  WAS  TURNED AWAY    FROM THE  INN,  MAYBE  THEY  WERE BLACK  AND  THE  INN   KEEPER,  WAS   WHITE,   JESUS  WAS BORN , HOMELESS//THERE  ARE BLACK BOOKS   ABOUT    JESUS BEING    BLACK,LANGSTON HUGHES,CAROL FOR A BROWN KING,NAVITY.///////

[Troy]

Harry that was an excellent book suggestion!  There are always gems in your posts.  I was not familiar with this one but it looks good.

 

Carol of the Brown King: Nativity Poems
by Langston Hughes, illustrated by Ashley Bryan

(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, October 1, 1998)