In the book, The Color of Water, what is the color of water and how does it relate to god?

What
do you think the color of water is?  It doesn't have any color at all, does it?  How does that
connect to this story? In this book, the author is the biracial child of a white, Jewish mother
and an African-American Christian minister.  Coming from two completely different heritages and
"colors," his concept of God is confused because each of us tends to picture God as
being the same race we are....