Racism is learned. Children must be taught that they are different. Limits on existence are also taught, some correctly and others not. No you can’t be black but you can go to Mars, or, uh oh, be at liberty for the purposes of securing to oneself the ample blessings of all His creation; which means that tyrants must, pretty much, die. God fearing, wild eyed, freedom loving revolutionaries or sit down shut up and do as you are told because I will call the “Resource Officer” are among the options for daily lessons.
Fifty-five or sixty years ago, I asked for coffee like my adult family members were drinking. As my grandmother sipped hers, she admonished me, “it’ll make you black.” Many years later, I told a black co-worker that and she laughed saying, “I was told the same thing.”
Could also be that some kids are color blind at that age… My oldest did not even know what my wife meant when she asked him if the new kid he was out playing with was the “black kid that lives over on the next street”…
Course that would mean that us racist white guys are not racist and that can’t possibly be the case…
I, for one, remember Art Linkletter asking kids serious questions and getting very serious, very funny answers from the mouths of those innocent youth.
Bill Cosby used to do that too, on one of his shows, but damn him for drugging women to rape.
May 23rd, 2016 at 8:26 pm
Haven’t you ever seen Soul Man?
May 23rd, 2016 at 8:32 pm
Well they can grow up to wear their pants sagging around their ass. I’ve seen that
May 23rd, 2016 at 8:40 pm
Shaun King and Rachel Dolezal believe the same thing, and they’re in their thirties I think.
May 23rd, 2016 at 9:09 pm
Racism is learned. Children must be taught that they are different. Limits on existence are also taught, some correctly and others not. No you can’t be black but you can go to Mars, or, uh oh, be at liberty for the purposes of securing to oneself the ample blessings of all His creation; which means that tyrants must, pretty much, die. God fearing, wild eyed, freedom loving revolutionaries or sit down shut up and do as you are told because I will call the “Resource Officer” are among the options for daily lessons.
May 23rd, 2016 at 9:32 pm
Fifty-five or sixty years ago, I asked for coffee like my adult family members were drinking. As my grandmother sipped hers, she admonished me, “it’ll make you black.” Many years later, I told a black co-worker that and she laughed saying, “I was told the same thing.”
May 23rd, 2016 at 9:33 pm
@Fred, well said!
May 23rd, 2016 at 10:14 pm
Could also be that some kids are color blind at that age… My oldest did not even know what my wife meant when she asked him if the new kid he was out playing with was the “black kid that lives over on the next street”…
Course that would mean that us racist white guys are not racist and that can’t possibly be the case…
May 23rd, 2016 at 10:40 pm
I guess they can just “identify” as black…
Next thing you know, they’ll have their own bathrooms. 🙂
May 24th, 2016 at 10:52 am
And Steve Martin can testify to the truth of this statement! (Granted, it worked the other way ’round for him.)
May 24th, 2016 at 11:05 am
Well, Michael Jackson grew up to be white, so….
May 24th, 2016 at 2:21 pm
I, for one, remember Art Linkletter asking kids serious questions and getting very serious, very funny answers from the mouths of those innocent youth.
Bill Cosby used to do that too, on one of his shows, but damn him for drugging women to rape.