Children, <br />who made your skin white? <br />Was it not God? <br />Who made mine black? <br />Was it not the same God? <br />Am I to blame, therefore, <br />because my skin is black? <br />Does it not cast a reproach <br />on our Maker <br />to despise a part of His children, <br />because He has been pleased <br />to give them a black skin? <br />Indeed, children, it does; <br />and your teachers ought to tell you so, <br />and root up, if possible, <br />the great sin of prejudice <br />against color from your minds. <br /> <br />While Sabbath School Teachers <br />know of this great sin, <br />and not only do not teach <br />their pupils that it is a sin, <br />but too often indulge in it themselves, <br />can they expect God <br />to bless them or the children? <br /> <br />Does not God love colored children <br />as well as white children? <br />And did not the same Savior <br />die to save the one as well as the other? <br /> <br />If so, <br />white children must know <br />that if they go to Heaven, <br />they must go there <br />without their prejudice against color, <br />for in Heaven <br />black and white <br />are one in the love of Jesus. <br /> <br />Now children, <br />remember what Sojourner Truth has told you, <br />and thus get rid of your prejudice, <br />and learn to love colored children <br />that you may be <br />all the children of your Father <br />who is in Heaven.<br /><br />Sojourner Truth<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-great-sin-of-prejudice-against-color/
