Color Blind

I love children for many reasons. One of them is the fact that they are completely color blind to the world. Today my youngest daughter came home from Pre-K. We were talking about the friends she had in her class. She mentioned some names as normal, first names only and then I heard "also a girl named "black(namehere)". I was SHOCKED! My reactions was, "So tell me why do you call her Black """?" My daughter said, "well she has black hair Mom...oh and she is just black all over." Soo innocent, so harmless in the confines of our car. Right then I knew I better start explaining something before she heads off to school the next day and calls this little girl that to her face! Though this was a moment of learning, it was funny how fun, cute and completely blind to the ugly world she was! I sat in the car and simply said.. "Do people call you White(name here)?" She said no ofcourse. I decided that showing her the difference right away was the best, however I made it a point to include other races in my little speech as well. Worked out since she is friends with a litte girl from China. THen I continued on to say, "we are all the same on the inside and we are nice to everyone." I think I did good, but only tomorrow will tell me that!!!

PS: Sorry for the lack of names. If I'm going to be able to write funny or not soo funny stories, I need to be able to keep names out of things. Those of you who know me, know who i'm talking about it. But those that don't can start imagining (might be more fun that way anyway)