Here is a very important memory from childhood.
A certain woman is Caucasian. Her skin is as fair as fair skin can be, but she does not care what color anyone’s skin happens to be. Instead, she treasures each person for his or her unique contribution to the world around us.
She will always have a bad memory of the day when her Mother tried to change her opinion of people who have skin colors other than white.
Many years ago, this woman was a latchkey kid. After school she would walk home with friends, unlock the front door of our house, and go inside and put down her books. Sometimes her friends would come inside for a few minutes with her. Then she would go back outside and play with her friends.
But one day her Mother lay on the couch when she unlocked the door. Mother had come home early with a headache. Looking to her daughter’s friend standing next to her daughter, she screamed so loudly the whole neighborhood could hear, “Get that f-ing N—– out of my house!” I hate N’s and do not allow them in MY home!”
Prior to her Mother yelling those words at herself and her friend, she had never understood what the “N word” meant. She dropped her books and ran outside with her friend. Ashamed of what her Mother had said, she cried and apologized to her friend. Then her Mother yelled for her to come back into to the house “without the f-ing N—–“.
Her Mother grounded her from playing with her friend ever again. Mother promised that if she ever caught her daughter playing with any person of color again, she would make her painfully aware of how wrong it is for a white person to play with a black person.
Not caring for her Mother’s attitude toward people who look different from herself, she continued to play with her friend. Even though her mother spanked her whenever she found out that her daughter had played with anyone with colored skin.
The little girl’s Mother could not spank her love of all people out of her. And neither could anyone else or anything else change her opinion. She accepts and values all people regardless of their skin color. Every human being contributes something valuable to the world regardless of the color of his or her skin.
Just sharing a grown woman’s childhood memory.
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