Letter to the editor: 'White Jesus and the spread of prejudice'
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article43029
- Author
- Mousseau, Lisbeth
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2021 April
- Author
- Mousseau, Lisbeth
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2021 April
- Volume
- 147
- Issue
- 4
- Page
- 4
- Notes
- "The picture with the white Jesus in the February 2021 edition of the 'Anglican Journal' ("Black story essential to our future: MacDonald", p. 6) reminded my how racism spreads with the best of intentions. I grew up in Switzerland. At that time it was still quite a homogeneous society. I remember shopping with my mother and brother Hans (about four years old), and passing our first Black man. Hans turned around and asked my mother in a loud voice: 'Is he Black on the belly too ?' My mother was embarrassed. My knowledge of Black people came from the box that went round at the Sunday school for the collection. It had the figure of a little Black girl in a blue shift, kneeling with her hands folded in prayer. Every time you dropped a coin in the slot, she nodded her head in thanks to you. My perception of Black people was that they should be subdued and thankful -- definitely inferior. That is the way prejudice gets created". [Text of entire article.]