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In The Color of Water by James McBride, we are taught through the eyes of a black man and his white mother that color shouldn’t matter. Although Ruth McBride Jordan had grown up as a Jew and had a father who disliked Jews very much, she was never prejudice against them and learned that she fit into the black world better than the white world. When she married a black man, she accepted Christ into her life and told her children, “God is the color of water.� She taught her kids that color didn’t matter, because God loves all races.
Throughout her life, Ruth was torn between what relationships she should have with black people. Because her father hated black people so much, overcharging them when selling goods, it was initially hard for her to communicate with these people. Her first “real� boyfriend, Peter, had been black and Ruth could not reveal to her family about this relationship. So when she married a black man, her family disowned her, reciting kaddish and......

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