Age of Innocence

Conversations about race.

We went to TKD testing today. Our friend Tony, who's black, had a daughter earning her red belt. Shatley got up there to test along with a black belt to help her in case she got stuck. The black belt was a blonde, blonde white girl and Shatley is a mocha colored girl with dark, tight curls. I told Lulu, "Look - Tony's daughter's right there."

"Which one?" she asked.

I miss that sense of people just being people and the time when distinctions seemed so blurred and were usually nice/not so nice.