Obama's Generation
| I was thinking about how my kids will view this Obama thing when they're adults. Obama will be the first President they remember. I have the feeling that race will barely register with them. My girl's best friend is a beautiful little Ashanti girl, from Ghana. It's amazing that skin color is a total non-issue between them. My girl has only mentioned it once, and it was in passing, on the same level as mentioning the color of a person's eyes, or hair. Mixed-race couples shown on TV shows and movies haven't drawn any reaction from my kids either. Not relevant. This is totally different from my own experience. When I was growing up, I sometimes had crushes on black girls. But neither their culture nor mine would have been very tolerant of a relationship. Things have definitely changed. And it's absolutely wonderful. |
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