HEY!!!! I HEARD THAT!!!!!!!!
for your information, mister...to this DAY i do not describe ANYONE using skin color unless i HAVE to...as a result, my children didn't even know what "black people" meant until school. they were raised to see a person as a person, not skin color. we have studied many people and seen them as people with characteristics. sometimes my children would describe someone and their skin, adding that it was BROWN. just a couple of months ago, my daughter had a violin recital. before she played, there was a group who was showing off drum skills. my 5YO son commented that the group mainly had brown people in it. he was observing, not judging. he also commented on the two non-brown kids and the wheelchair dude.
but i feel proud when my children actually SEE people. they don't scan for color and move on. society has come a long way from the 50s/60s...but now we take it a step FURTHER. we've done the slave thing. we've done the women thing. we've done the "black" thing. now we're doing the gay thing. after that, some other slant from society will step up and fight for something. i'm hoping it'll be middle class this time. regardless, this is how we evolve. but in order to get effective, positive change we must learn from past mistakes, work together on maintaining a common focus, and work together on achieving said-goal.
we've just got to learn how to work together.