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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous].  I am sure this will offend many a liberati on here, but I love that my child describes friends as having black hair when they are african american, not that they have dark skin.[/quote]

How is it your child observes hair color but not skin color?  Stop perpetuating this.  The myth of being “colorblind” only causes more damage.[/quote]

+1  what a ridiculous comment.  our white kids attend an overwhelming black elementary school and almost of of their friends are black and they know it.  they're not being taught to be color blind, for pete's sake.  just stop it.[/quote]

Not teaching color blindness at all.  But definitely not teaching a kindergartner shame about skin color.  Color blindness is naive.  But shame is not necessary. [/quote]

Skin color is about truth, not shame.  If your child thinks they look exactly the same as a kid with black skin, but just with different hair color, something ain’t right.  You’re trying to assuage your own fragility and guilt via your child in a very twisted way.  Reconsider this approach.  In the long run it will actually hurt those picture-perfect childhood  friendships you’re touting.[/quote]

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