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Cultural Diversity The book, The Color of Water, is about a black man learning about his white mother for the first time. Ruth McBride-Jordan was a rabbi's daughter who was born in Poland and raised in the South; she fled to Harlem and married a black man, she helped to start a Baptist church and put 12 children through college. With Ruth's unorthodox ways of parenting her children were, often times, put in the face of …

…grew to face cultural diversity in every shape and size. To Ruth, issues of race and identity took secondary importance to moral beliefs. I think McBride said it best when he said," Mommy's children are extraordinary people. All of them have toted more mental baggage and dealt with more hardship then they care to remember, yet they carry themselves with a giant measure of dignity, humility, and humor." We have his memoirs to prove it.