My five year old daughter just says my friends. I never knew the ethnicity of any of the kids until I met them. Funny thing is that she's the only blonde blue-eyed kid in the lot.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox <zaph0d.b33bl3b...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My daughters refer to their friends as "..the one with blond hair, the > one with brown skin, the one with tan skin, the one with black hair, > the one with the green eyes"...as if skin color were nothing more or > less different that hair color or eye color. They're not Black, > Asian, Mexican or any of those labels our society uses. > > I wish I could be more like that. > > > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Unfortunately trish all the right wingers on the list now have you in >> their sights. >> >> Generally I agree with you, but that said, I have no problems >> discussing my views on the topic with any black person, or other >> minority for that matter. When I was in BC for my cousin's funeral >> last June, I did have a long conversation with his husband (same sex >> marriage being legal in Canada). One thing was very clear, being gay >> and black in the US is an even harder row to hoe. >> >> larry >> >> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:55 AM, trish simon <trishsimo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Racism...LOL...how many emails on this one subject, and the target >>> being "Blacks" (one of many minorities in America)? How many poster >>> who responded to the original subject has apologized for jumping on >>> the bandwagon to criticize and attack this woman, and the NAACP? How >>> many posters are outraged that the "media" has again deceived us, even >>> the White House did not investigate the facts before attacking this >>> woman? >>> >>> Just when I thought it could not get any worse, someone provided a >>> list of "successful Blacks" (not sure why Tiger Woods was on the >>> list), and then concluded with, "if there is a systemic oppression of >>> Blacks, these men and women would not have had the opportunity to >>> achieve what they have." >>> >>> I dare you to have this discussion with a "real" person of >>> color...reality is not as pretty. >>> >>> >>> On 7/22/10, Sam <sammyc...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Race is a real issue and the Obama admin will make sure of that. >>>> In this day and age when blacks have achieved so much this admin >>>> spends so much time calling whites racists. That's bringing us back to >>>> a 60's mentality. You call someone an evil name often enough they >>>> might end up not liking you. That still won't make them racist, >>>> anti-bigot maybe, but the charge will still be racism. Can we stop the >>>> racism nonsense? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> I want to see a bigger focus on economics, on class, on structural >>>>> inequalities in the system that aligns big business with big >>>>> government to the detriment of 90% of the country. I think that there >>>>> is more that we can find in common than that which may divide us. But >>>>> I think that it is a mistake to pretend that race isn't a real issue >>>>> anymore and that the attempt to try and take race out of the equation >>>>> ends up pushing away a bunch of people who otherwise ought to be right >>>>> there in the fight with you. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:323464 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
