I'm worried about my 4 year old son. I'm totally not racist at all, and would take great offence if anyone suggested otherwise, but the other day I was watching King Kong (the new one) with my son, and he asked to see a bit again, a bit he described as 'when the brown man fights king kong'. Now I've never taught my son about different races or anything, and I believe that the fact that the 'brown man' was the only black guy in the film made it the most obvious description for him of the bit in the film he liked. What worries me is if he says things like this in public, and people think I'm bringing up my son as a racist. This already happened once about six months ago, when he went up to the only indian boy in his older brothers school and said (perfectly innocently) 'you've got a brown face'.
How have others taught their children to handle race sensitevely?
2006-09-06
08:04:32
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