Comments on: Peanut on Obama

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:08:17 +0000

Now that’s a great idea. Blog power is an amazing form of energy.

By: Cecilia

Cecilia — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:47:55 +0000

Isn’t that the truth? Who’s going to break it to all the major news agencies? (That we want them to leave the prefixes off). Maybe we’ll just have to rely on the power of the blog world.

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:26:13 +0000

Cecilia –

I’m old enough to remember being called “colored, Negro, Afro-American, Black, African-American” and I sure a few other choice names I’ve chosen to forget. Won’t it be a great day when we don’t haven’t color prefixes? Kids intuitively understand this. Maybe we can stop sending them the “memo” that says otherwise.

By: Cecilia

Cecilia — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:22:24 +0000

One of my childhood memories from the 60′s was thinking that “colored people” were our neighbors in Detroit who wore bright and colorful clothing. I didn’t understand that there was a negative connotation to that phrase until I went to school and heard viewpoints other than my own family’s.
My good friend runs an urban ministry in Detroit. Her young daughter has always described her friends in terms of brown and cream.

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:46:53 +0000

You may be right Laura. Funny I’ve gotten so used to using the terms Black and White to denote race that it’s become second nature. But my teacher–Peanut–now keeps correcting me when I say Black. If I just remember that brown is the new gray, Peanut might give me a passing grade. We can change the world one person at a time.

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:42:59 +0000

Hopefully Peanut’s generation is the one who will change how we look at race in America. Or maybe I should say how we stop looking at it.

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:41:45 +0000

Good question Brigit. All I know is that I’m old enough to have been called “colored”, “Negro”, “Afro-American”, “African-American”, “Black” and several unmentionables related to race. I’d like to just be American now–without being color-coded! Peanut seems to believe this is possible.

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:36:40 +0000

We could all have used that box for tears. Maybe your daughters can now start making up boxes for hope and change. It’ll take a while but now we can believe it’s coming!