+337 When a mother is encouraging her young child to say "dog" by pointing out a person with a seeing-eye-dog that's cute, but if she's teaching her child colors by indicating people of various races that's unacceptable, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

inb4 "OMG THATS LIEK SO RACIST HURDUR"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

you know what i hate? when people teach their kids colors by pointing to fruits. i mean, dont you think those fruits have feelings? how do you think that orange feels being called ora...oh wait...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Is this sarcasm I have no problem with teaching my kids colors with human examples. A brown person is brown; it is a fact and a neutral statement. It is not disparaging to the target in any way. By making it an issue you have given the color a demeaning connotation that would otherwise be absent.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I agree. The colors are all wrong. Black people are brown, white people are tannish, yellow people are darker tannish, and red people are brown. yeah, those kids are gonna be dumb

by Anonymous 13 years ago

red people are brown?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

indian people sure aren't red.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

oh, i just didnt understand what you meant. you said a color is a different color, so i was confused.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Everything is considered racist nowadays.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I was talking to this white kid today and he called these old white people racist for giving him dirty looks ono I'm guessing he meant ageist but come on.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Exactly! Yesterday I was talking to some friends and we were talking about names and what categories they fit into like boy/girl old/young, that type of thing. So someone said "how about Taylor?" And I said that could be boy or girl but its a white kids name. Then someone said "well what about LaShawnda?" And I said well that'd be a black girls name. The girl beside me laughed and then said "omg that's so racist!"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

haha it's not racist it's just an observation. There's a chapter in the book Freakonomics about how a name affects your child that is similar to what you're saying.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Exactly! I mean you don't see very many black children named taylor or anna and you don't see many white children named lashawnda or lecreatia.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think you'll get a kick out of this if you haven't seen it already http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCdmiZyyGjQ

by Anonymous 13 years ago

haha! Yes, I did enjoy that video.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So, when I was little and I pointed at a black woman (who was very dark, which is probably why I pointed her out) and exclaimed, "Mommy! That lady is black." it was unacceptable? Sure the pointing was rude, but did it make me a 4 year old racist? If people are going to get offended that others know what their skin color is, then society has become waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too sensitive.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Everyone knows little kids aren't tactful and that they usually aren't being racist when they say things like that. This post is saying it's unacceptable for the mother to do it not the child.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

When I was 3 or 4, I asked a black guy is he was made of chocolate. Apparently he was offended.

by Anonymous 12 years ago