On the way to a friend’s house today we heard a blurb on the Christian station about MLK Jr. and R1 asked me who he was. I was totally honest and told him that I knew he was a great man and did some really important things for the civil rights movement but that I didn’t really know much about him and that I planned to remedy that. He said he’d like to research it with me.
I did a quick google and read a bit about him in the parking lot and we talked a bit about it as the 4 of us headed into Publix. When I said the words, “black people” and “white people” while trying my best to explain what the civil rights movement was my sweet R2 looked at me and said, “What are black and white people?”
My heart soared. To her, there is no such thing, it’s absolutely absurd because everyone is different, no one is the exact same shade as anyone else and we are all the same – God’s children. I asked her what color her skin is and she said, “brown.” R1 argued that albino people are truly white and I had to concede, LOL, but we talked about how even they have different shades.
The idea that any one “color” of person would hate another “color” JUST BECAUSE OF THEIR “COLOR” was (and I quote my son here) “STUPID.” I wholeheartedly agreed and told him so.
I fail a lot at this parenting thing. I’m not as educated or witty as some but it seems as though I just might have done this one thing right. Mr. Fox and I both grew up with a lot of racial junk being demonstrated and are so thankful that God has cleared our hearts and minds of it and allowed us to model LOVE for people to our children.
