When I was a teenager, attending the Kingstown, Seventh day Adventist church, a young church member, came to church, one Sabbath, with Jerry curls hair style. An upstanding female elder give her a good talking too about getting involved in worldly activities.
About a month or so latter that same, upstanding female elder came to church wearing a Jerry curls hairstyle, just like the one young lady she gives a talking too had. Not one word of criticism was hauled at her and that upstanding female elder never apologize to the young lady.
Sometime later, one Sabbath, the Superintendent wanted to spice up the Sabbath school program with a skit. The skit was about the woman with the issue of blood. They had people to play all of the parts except the part of Jesus.
They came to me, and asked me to play the role of Jesus. They were convinced I will make a good Jesus. To which I agreed to play the part of Jesus. The same upstanding elder passed by and saw our last minute rehearsal, she said:
"I am not comfortable with someone being Jesus, I think, you should just have the voice speaking the words of Jesus. You can stay behind the curtain and say your part".
Everyone agree Allan is not Jesus it is just a dramatization of Jesus. She said I know but I don't think it is right. Since the upstanding female elder overruled the youths, and the upstanding elder is so petty, I said I am not going to participate.
I went back to my seat, only to see the skit with, with a pink skin youth, playing the role of Jesus; as I was too. Wow! That same Sabbath just after the pink skin youth had just finished playing Jesus, I heard him in a casual conversation, in the church yard, with some other church youth, his age; he was flinging out fucks, like it was the word bless.
What was interesting; this upstanding female elder was black as night. I wondered to myself, what about me that was offensive to this lady? Was it my beautiful, golden skin, that looks like the skin of the so-called Jesus or was it the fact, I came from St. Vincent: Nazareth (Bottom Town)?
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