December 12, 201411 yr comment_12019 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./////// Report
December 12, 201411 yr comment_12021 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) Report
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