Jesus Loves the Little Children

Jesus Loves the Little Children


So, I was just reading a discussion on a very leftist sort of parenting site and found a topic about changing the lyrics of this song. They were debating on how to change the line "Red, Yellow, Black & White" to something 'non-offensive'. Why do we have to get so offended?? I AM white. Sure I'm sort of a pinkish peach color, but I'm still white. My uncle is black. He makes no bones about that. I live in a neighborhood where most of my neighbors are black. None that I know of find it offensive to say that. None have said to me "I'm sorry but I'm a dark chocolate brown, thank you!" My DH is Mexican an if anyone should be offended by the song it would be him as he's not even mentioned in there, but he doesn't find it offensive. I was shocked at some of the new versions they came up with (The most extreme one is first and you can quickly see that this person is NOT a Christian).

Gaia loves the little children,
All the children of the world.
For a green world we must fight
Or she'll soon turn out the light.
Gaia loves the little children of the world.
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Jesus loves the little children,
all the children of the world,
morning, evening, day and night
they are precious in His sight,
Jesus loves the little children of the world.
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Jesus loves the little children,
all the children of the world,
tall and heavy, short and light
they are precious in His sight,
Jesus loves the little children of the world.
(But then someone mentioned that this would be 'sizeism' so you can't use that).
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Jesus loves the little children,
all the children of the world,
Every child in every land,
Jesus holds them in His hand,
Jesus loves the little children of the world.
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While some of these are great variations, I think that they lump everyone together and ignore that we have differences and can be just as dangerous as drawing lines to seperate us out. Jesus DOES love us all, no matter of skin color. I think THAT is what this song is trying to say. Even purple or pink, we'd still be loved.

But what about the Jews or Muslims who don't believe in Jesus as a Savior? Maybe we should be all inclusive and just get rid of this song all together so we don't offend them too. The lady who is looking for variations to this song is a Sunday school teacher to 2 year olds. Would you be upset if your 2 year old came home singing a variation? To me, it's MY responsibility to teach about multiculturalism, not a SS teacher.