Not to high jack your thread, but I though of you all today. I am a teacher (at a year round school) and today an ignorant but nonjudgmental sub asked me about a little girl in my class. The little girl is full AA and her parents are white. We have family photos hung in the classroom and I (somewhat unexpectedly) bristled when the girl asked "I saw her family photo in the room! She's beautiful! Where is she from?"
What? Texas. I mean...what? I wasn't sure what to say that was not offensive....
so I just said "yes, she was adopted."
What could I have said? It seemed to me that she was assuming the little girl was from Africa....maybe I was too sensitive.
