Red and Yellow, Black and White

When I hear charges of White racism, I think of the hymn that we children sang often in the early 1950s in the Sunday School I attended in Manhattan at the Protestant, Dutch Reformed Church, Ft. Washington Collegiate Church, affiliated with a group of churches headed by Rev. Norman Vincent Peale.

We were less than a mile (20 city blocks) from then-nearly-all-Black Harlem, and we did not have, to my recollection, any Blacks in the congregation, nor any who were “Red” or “Yellow,” if you’ll excuse me, and yet we were taught “all are precious in His sight.”

That lesson stuck with some of us, at least.   

Jesus Loves the Little Children Lyrics

 

Jesus loves the little children
All the children of the world
Red and yellow,
Black and white
They are precious in His sight.
Jesus loves the little children
Of the world.

Jesus loves the little children
All the children of the world
Red and yellow,
Black and white
They are precious in His sight.
Jesus loves the little children
Of the world.

Jesus loves the little children
All the children of the world
Red and yellow,
Black and white
They are precious in His sight.
Jesus loves the little children
Of the world.

Red and yellow,
Black and white
They are precious in His sight.
Jesus loves the little children
Of the world.

 

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