Originally Posted by RayVega

While i'm on my anti-school kick:

My kids have never given race a second thought. people are all different colors and clearly they could see that, but never really thought of people as being in categories of color.

I remember my daughter describing one of her teachers as "the one with really dark skin, like chocolate", lol. Humorous as it is, she didn't even have a word for a person of color and described her the best way she could. that says a lot.

Now they are teaching American history and all this stuff about slavery and racism. NOW, my kids clearly know that there's a difference. I heard her say "look there's a black person", "they used to be treated really badly". When I heard her refer to the person as "they" I thought that was awful. These kids are 9yo, 10yo, for Christ sakes let them live life without the burden of that knowledge. At least until they are older.

I'm not saying keep them ignorant, but why in gods name would you teach a young impressionable child that "people are different"? It seems insane to me!

Am I out of line here?