Yes, from time to time I have been so glad to be born white, but not only for me, for my two sons as well. I cannot imagine what it must be like to send your kids to school or out to play every day and wonder if you will ever see them again.
I can remember my husband coming home from work one day and saying that such and such a Engineer is brilliant and got his degree from MIT and ending with "and he is black". Can't you just say "he is a brilliant engineer".
Why, in the old movies, did the bad cowboy wear a black hat and the good cowboy wear a white hat?
Why is the devil always portrayed in black and the angels in white robes?
Even in the old masters paintings evil is portrayed as black and good is portrayed as white.
Face it people we have been stereotyping good and evil as black and white since the beginning of time.
My Father was middle aged when I was born, and I adored him, he was the quietest gentle man you could wish to meet, but I remember that if I painted my finger nails bright red he would call them "jungle women's claws" ............. where did that come from?
Unfortunately it is a fact of life and I really don't think it will change.
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