Different colored skins
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In a message dated 5/4/02 12:05:49 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
My former husband did a career in the military. When we were stationed in
Okinawa Japan, my son Shawn was twelve. The Japanese people liked to use
American kids in their advertising and commericals. Shawn was a skateboarder
and was auditioning for one of these as such.
When he came home from the audition I asked how it went. He said the woman
in charge wanted him to come back next week, and bring his blond
skateboarding friends. Then he stopped, did a mental inventory, and stated,
"I don't have any blond skateboarding friends." We ran over the list and
found many nationalities, all of which tended toward dark hair. In Shawn's
mind you were divided only on the basis of do you, or don't you skateboard!
He was so oblivious to race, that once when he told me his little girlfriend
was SO short, I asked him if her mom was oriental. Oh, yes she is, he said,
surprised at the thought. The idea of race just didn't matter or register
with him at all.
Connie
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[email protected] writes:
> she said Meg doesn't realizeHi,
> that Lexie and Meg have different colored skins and has never had the
> idea that children of different colors might not get along and she
> didn't want to plant that idea into her child's head.
My former husband did a career in the military. When we were stationed in
Okinawa Japan, my son Shawn was twelve. The Japanese people liked to use
American kids in their advertising and commericals. Shawn was a skateboarder
and was auditioning for one of these as such.
When he came home from the audition I asked how it went. He said the woman
in charge wanted him to come back next week, and bring his blond
skateboarding friends. Then he stopped, did a mental inventory, and stated,
"I don't have any blond skateboarding friends." We ran over the list and
found many nationalities, all of which tended toward dark hair. In Shawn's
mind you were divided only on the basis of do you, or don't you skateboard!
He was so oblivious to race, that once when he told me his little girlfriend
was SO short, I asked him if her mom was oriental. Oh, yes she is, he said,
surprised at the thought. The idea of race just didn't matter or register
with him at all.
Connie
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