"Mommy, what if you had married a white man?"
"What do you think?"
"I wouldn’t be very happy right now," she said.
"Why?"
"Because people would be calling me white."
"What do they call you now?"
"Abby," she said.
Amen, I thought. Amen.
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Big AMEN! And may it continue on!!
Wow. Very cool
xo,
Anna
Wow Susan…..that is something to be thankful for. I love your children!!
From the mouths of babes….
Maybe, just maybe, there’s hope for the world. And a child shall lead…
HA!
My sister (below), whose father is Puerto-Rican, had something similar happen to her as a kid.
When she was growing up my father was stationed in CT, but when my family moved back South a few years ago kids started screwing with her at school. Apparently some white kids took to calling her a “dirty Mexican.”
And this is in high school.
When my mom finds out about this she goes nuts. Sort of comically she asks my sister: “Well, did you tell them that you were Puerto Rican?”
“No,” my sister says.
“Why not?” my mom asks.
“Because ‘dirty Puerto Rican’ would have been just as stupid. And it would have made the Mexican kids think the ‘Mexican’ part offended me.”
Where do kids get so smart?