Introduction
“Thus did my mother say and kissed me, / And thus I say to little English boy. / When I from black and he from white cloud free, / And round the tent of God like lambs we joy.”
At first glance, “Little Black Boy” written by William Blake may seem like a poem about a little African boy’s journey with Christianity, but is it just that? Over time there have been many written pieces that are aimed to crush racism but instead have the opposite effect. A common pattern is the use of an omnipotent and omniscient God that reinforces racial injustice. It isn’t including a…