When Chris Ofili looks to
his roots as a black man, he ranges from Africa to Trinidad, but he has no obligation to see how black Africans once made a dark passage to the Americas.
It claims that by
rooting around in our own egos or by reflecting upon our life experiences
as men or women, whites or
blacks, we really won't discover much that is worth knowing, unless we know this Jew from Nazareth who is the way, the truth and the life, and are part of a people who follow him.