Julie Stauffer

,<<So anyone that is nice to your kids and raves about how cute they are is
automatically suspicious?>>

Ren,

I would have said the same thing back when all my kids were anglo, but now
that not all of them are, I know exactly what Joylyn is talking about.
People fumbling all over themselves, gushing, "some of my best friends
are....", you know. It really is different. The radar goes way up.

Some prejudices are so deeply ingrained, particularly in language, that I
catch myself. "Nigger-rigged" is a common term here for something that is
put together is "bailing wire and spit". I was grown and married before it
dawned on me what I was saying about Black people when I used that term and
trust me, nobody that knows me would think of me as prejudiced.

I don't have a clue if Tuck is prejudiced, I don't think we can ever know a
person's heart. What I do know is that when I read her statement about
cultural differences, I thought "I wonder why she thinks its a cultural
thing rather than a personal thing."

Julie