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I've been off the page for a bit, but enjoyed reading the conversation.
We have found we have to educate our parents, family, friends, etc... all the time. Example was the day my mother said, "Boy, they are little Blackie's... my girls have very pitch black eyes, and hair." Or the use of "Monkey" can be a unkind remark. Or when my mother-in-law sang "Jesus Loves Me" to refer to skin color didn't matter... and I had to say... people aren't really "red, yellow, black, and white." Or a friend answering a cell phone said, "We are with our friend, and they just adopted two orphens (I was at their birth and brought them home from the hospital).
It gets frustrating at times... but I realize that we are moving the people around us forward in their thinking about humans and how being human doesn't mean we always have to focus on differences. If you think about it, we are all different within our own skin colors. Don't you wish we could stop focusing on skin color.
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