The story is told in countless versions. Somebodya saintly rabbi, a mystic caught up in holy ecstasy, even in one version a lost astronautchances to see God face to face and lives to tell about it. "What is God really like?" asks an anxious crowd back home. The narrator hesitates. "You'll be shocked," he warns. He is pressed further. "Well," he finally says, "to begin with, she's black."
The message of the joke would be lost in some cultures; in India, for instance, Kalian incarnation of the Hindu mother goddessis both female and black....
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