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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At the park the other day, my 4yo son (half-white, half hispanic) was playing with a black girl.  She was older than him and was taking toys from him and being a little pushy - all within the range of normal kid play, but I could see that my son was getting a bit frustrated.  At one point he ran over to me and I asked him whether he wanted to keep playing where we were or go to the playground.  He pointed to the playground and a white boy playing there and said "maybe we can play with that boy, he has the same color skin as us."

I was caught off guard and sputtered something like "yes, people have all different colors of skin, and we can play with everyone"

I don't know if I handled it correctly. My hope is that it was just an observation that he phrased weirdly bc he is 4. [/quote]

No, according to the people who post here you should have explained to him that he was an evil privileged racist due to his skin color(and so are you for being "colorblind").  Also make sure you emphasize 'Black' over 'white' while talking, since you can't capitalize them differently like the racists here do.

You also should have taken the time to explain to him about how the country totally advantages white people (which he is due to his skin color, heritage doesn't matter) over Black people.  No, it doesn't matter how many examples of the opposite there are, if he disagrees you should probably put him up for adoption since you're clearly raising a future nazi.[/quote]

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