This "conversation" took place during computer time with Pookie and Bear. They were making up art scenes with the program and picking out people for different scenarios.
Pookie talking to Bear: You can't pick that Dad and that Mom together.
Me: Why not?
Pookie: They don't match.
Me: What?!!??
Pookie: They are different colors, they don't match.
Me: Umm...have you looked at me and Daddy lately?
Pookie: Blank stare...due to an inability to comphrend sarcasm
Me: We don't match...slightly different colors in our skin right??!!??
Pookie: Huh. You look the same to me.
Me: OK....
***Hubby and I first noticed this ability of kids to forget color while living in Camden, a city of Black and Hispanic people. Hubby is a big white man who initially drew a lot of attention. By the end of our time there, I remember Hubby (who was not my hubby at the time) having a conversation with one of his kids. The conversation was basically around the fact that Mark, a black boy, was convinced that Hubby was black. Hubby kept talking about how God actually made him white, but that it didn't really matter. Mark ended the conversation by saying that whatever Hubby said didn't matter cause Hubby was black to him.
The reality is that when a relationship is formed and love is shared, you can really forget about color. Kids...they just get it...too bad grown ups don't.
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Kids... they do just get it... no matter the color of skin or the special needs of a child. They just get it. Tracy
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