¶ … Color of Water
James McBride was born of an interracial marriage between a white, Jewish mother and a Black, Christian father. Some of his negative life experiences included racism, poverty, segregation, and a substandard education. However, while he experienced many prejudices, he has also experienced many good and positive things within his life. His priorities in life included his home and family and these factors were very positive influences upon his life. While on the surface, my life seems very different than that of McBride's, I actually have more things in common with his life than some might believe.
The famous writer and musician, James McBride, tells the story of a conversation with his mother: He asks her the question, "Am I Black or White?"
She replied, "You're a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!"
McBride's mother, Ruthie Shilsky McBride Jordan, instilled within her children two values. One was respect for education and the other was religious belief. What makes this story inspiring is that she succeeded against strong odds. They were raising her family in all-black lower-income neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens in New York City, where opportunities for her children to get into major trouble abounded. An orthodox Jew born in Poland and raised in the South, Ruthie's early life included her abusive father, an itinerant rabbi who ran a grocery store where he exploited his black customers. Her mother was a caring but helpless person crippled by polio and spoke no English. McBride's mother was shunned by whites and blacks alike because...
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Opposite to Ruth, James' experience with racial and religious discrimination is somewhat different because the era changed. When James was in his early adulthood, the perspectives started to change and racial discrimination was viewed as an issue that must be changed. The difference in approaches can be related to the nature of the individuals, Ruth and James, but as well to the changing times. The nature of the two characters
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