Hazel came home from school today asking me to guess whose birthday it was on Monday. So I tried to guess. I asked her to just tell me, then she said, “Some king, it used to be they made black people sit in the back of the bus and white people in the front, and he stopped them from doing that because it was wrong.”

Ohhhh. Martin Luther King Jr! We talked about it a little bit, I read a part of the I Have A Dream speech that I have hanging up in my bedroom. Curious, I  asked her, “So, do you know anyone with dark skin?” She thought about it a little bit and then said, “No, I don’t think so.” “Are you sure?” She thought about it some more and asked “Do you?” I smiled. “Yes.” She asked me who. I mentioned a lady at church. She tried to think about people she knew with dark skin and said “No, I really don’t know anyone with dark skin”. I smiled and said that was okay. 

I could only smile at her response because there is a girl in her class who’s from Africa. She’s “black”, her skin is darker than everyone elses. But Hazel does not see her as someone with dark skin.



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