Comments:

Claudia - 2006-08-30 15:21:38
Dusty refers to African-Americans (and others with african features) as people with brown skin. Pure and simple. Also, I have always preferred clock-shaped clocks myself. I have a very clock-shaped one over my kitchen sink.
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elgan - 2006-08-30 15:31:18
The other ethnicity my kids were exposed to early on was Asian. Nothing really to talk about there. But I do recall one instance when we were in the pharmacy and Little Princess saw a university student waiting to ring up his purchases and she said to me, "That boy needs to wash his face!" which caused me to stifle my impulse to burst out laughing and then tell her that he wasn't dirty, that was his colour. She accepted that without any argument whatsoever. It also reminds me of a scene from Third Rock from the Sun when the stupid alien has a job in a men's cosmetic department and he says to a very dark man who comes into the store, "Oh, I see you already use our tanning product."
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Harriet - 2006-08-30 15:34:34
That's pretty much what AJ does too. He distinguishes between Latino and African-American as people with "light brown" and "dark brown" skin. He gets confused with what to call Asians. There's a boy from India in his gymnastics class that is "just brown" skin -- by which he means something in between light and dark. But since he remember's when my friend's daughter was adopted from China, he compares most Asians to her -- "skin like L-S" or "light brown skin but like Chinese." I'm inclined to agree with you on clock-shaped clocks. We don't have enough of them around here.
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Erin - 2006-08-30 18:01:46
I hope AJ gets to read through some of this when he's older...he'll really appreciate having a record of all the interesting/funny things he's said one day.
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Dandy - 2006-08-30 18:23:41
The racial/cultural diversity is one positive to living in E. Lansing. MSU brings a bit of diversity to the public schools that is otherwise difficult to find in areas that aren't economically depressed. Sad and unfortunate, but true.
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beth b. - 2006-09-02 07:35:43
when i was 4 and my mom was preggers with my youngest brother todd, i had an african american friend named michelle and being 4, didn't have a good grasp on genetics, so i told her (and everyone who would listen apparently) that i wanted a "brown baby sister". i just thought some people came out fancier than i did.
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