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just like sometimes we expect a Hispanic boy to do better at soccer than a white boy from Mississippi , all because we sometimes expect certain things out of certain skin colors, when in reality color does not matter. When McBride asks his mother, what color god’s spirit is, she responds “It doesn’t have a color...God is the color of water. Water doesn’t have a color.”(McBride 51) That is the meaning of the title of the book. God has no color. Color does not matter to god, only character and fulfillment of our potential, which is inside of us, not determined by the color of our skin. This is beautifully proved in McBride’s work. “Mommy’s children are extraordinary people, most of them leaders in their own right. All of them have toted more mental baggage and dealt with more hardship than they care to remember, yet they carry themselves with a giant measure of dignity, humility and humor.” (McBride 276-277). All of “mommy’s” children were black. Not just black, but on the lower side of the economic ladder, lived in not-so-good neighborhoods, and were stereotyped and treated unjust many times in life. In my life, I had people say that I was not going to amount to anything because I was part of this family tree, or because I came from Colombia. Yet, Here I am ready to leave for university. McBride’s brothers and sisters all graduated or currently attend a university, and many have their mast

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