In 1986 Desmond Tutu, an anti-apartheid and social rights activist and Anglican bishop, recounted the story of the whites coming to South Africa. “When they came,” the bishop said, “the blacks had the land and the whites had the Bible.” Then, he said, the whites wanted to teach the blacks to pray. “So we bowed our heads and closed our eyes. When we opened our eyes,” Bishop Tutu continued, “the whites had the land and the blacks had the Bible.’“ The Bishop then raised his Bible, tenderly kissed it, and said, “We will see who got the better deal.”
