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A few years ago Barbara Bush was attached for calling her biracial (hispanic/white) grandchildren her "brown babies." Obviously, as a grandmother she meant this as a term of endearment, but people were all up in arms over it.

I try to be sensitive to racial terms I use, but there are times within families and close friends, things are okay. One of my AA friends and I joke about "those crazy names" some folks pick for their kids. Would I have that conversation with just anyone on the street? Probably not, but my friend and I are cool like that. And my kids are lovingly teased that they are the whitest kids on the planet, they are practically flourescent. It's okay, that doesn't define them, it is just a naturally occuring part of them.