I still remember how my dad explained skin color to me when I was about 5. He said that when God made us, he baked us in the oven like cookies, and some just got left in the oven longer.
It wasn't a perfect explanation, but it certainly emphasized that we were all basically the same. Dad was a musician, traveled all over the south playing gigs. If his fellow musicians were banned from eating inside a restaurant, he would go around back to the kitchen door for his food and eat with them. Because of this, I escaped from any of stereotypical racist indoctrination so prevalent in the south. In fact, the only negative comment my dad ever made about a person of color was that he hated the smell of their hair oil, to which I replied that it smelled better than his Old Spice. He never wore Old Spice again. On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Deanna Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >. Ah, educating the kindergartners about race issues. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:278814 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
