When my daughter was in first or second grade (I don’t remember which), she came home talking about a favorite teacher’s aide. I couldn’t place the woman, but I noticed her name got mentioned frequently over the course of a few weeks. I don’t know what prompted me to ask my little girl this, but one day I asked her what the teacher looked like, and my daughter described her as “browner than me.” I suddenly knew who my daughter was referring to, a Black teacher’s aide I had seen around school. However, I was fascinated by my daughter’s description of the woman. When people say they’re “color blind” when it comes to the race of people, that’s not true. Good people do see color. It’s just that we don’t see it as any different from us except they’re “browner than me.” The story below is the perfect example of this.
“My daughter and I are in Myrtle Beach taking a sunset walk when this adorable and sweet little boy comes walking right up to her. He shares with her the shark tooth around his neck. He tells her his name and asks her name to which she tells him. They part ways while saying goodbye, walking in the opposite direction.
A few minutes later he comes running back, in what seems to be in slow motion, yelling out my daughter’s name. She turns around and is greeted by his smile. So they share a few words, mainly about his super cool shark’s tooth that apparently gave him powers smile emoticon.
Before they walked, talked and raced, I asked his mother for permission to take this picture and this was the result. No one positioned them, told them to smile and there was absolutely no hesitation on their part at all. When we finished walking and it was time to go they hugged for a long time and exchanged about 20 “goodbyes”
This is a moment that we humans understand as just simply seeing no color lines, no judgment, no race, no hate, no shades. It’s just pure….two kids meeting on a sunset walk without a care in the world…all they saw was each other.
This world would be a much better place if we acted like these two kids.”
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