When Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu describes the decades of struggle that finally brought an end to apartheid (forced separation of races) in South Africa, it's hard to listen with detachment. That battle for freedom, like so many others, surges with powerful encouragement today for everyone striving to escape any form of bondage.
In a television interview last year, Archbishop Tutu was asked what the worst thing about apartheid had been. Considering the level of persecution black people (and some whites) had faced under that regime, his answer was moving. He said the worst thing was that it made you doubt that you were a child of God. When you hear over and over that you are "non-European, non-this, or non-that, it's corrosive of your self-image," he explained. From an interview with Bill Moyers on PBS, WGBH-TV, Boston. You begin to think that perhaps you really aren't as good as someone who has more material advantages, that perhaps God doesn't love a black child as much as a white child.
God loves us because of our very nature as His image
