It
would be too bad if Jesus
Were to come back black.
There are so many churches
Where he could not pray
In the U.S.A.,
Where entrance to Negroes,
No matter how sanctified,
Is denied,
Where race, not religion,
Is glorified.
But say it—
You may be
Crucified.
Were to come back black.
There are so many churches
Where he could not pray
In the U.S.A.,
Where entrance to Negroes,
No matter how sanctified,
Is denied,
Where race, not religion,
Is glorified.
But say it—
You may be
Crucified.
Langton Hughes, “Bible Belt,” in The
Collected Works of Langston Hughes,
Volume 3: The Poems, 1951-1967,
ed. Arnold Rampersad (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2001),
155-156.
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