In 1967 Stanley Kramer produced and directed the Oscar-winning movie Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Two of the stars of the movie were a young black man, portrayed by Sidney Poitier, and his fiancée, a young white woman who was portrayed by Katherine Houghton.

The suspense of the movie revolves around the decision of Katherine to invite Sidney to a dinner in the home of her white parents without informing them that Sidney is black. So since this was an unlikely happening in many places in America, even as late as 1967, the movie was titled Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Indeed it was a movie that dared to lift for us a vision of inclusion in a society known for its practice of exclusion.

Likewise, our text lifts up a similar vision of inclusion for another society known for its exclusion. …