Reply #54: If it took Obama

[LWolf]

for you to see people with dark skin as people, I'm glad for you. I don't relate, but I'm glad.

The last time I remember that feeling I was 6 years old. My grandparents invited the granddaughter of friends over to spend the day with me. I have a picture somewhere. At that time in the midwest, neighborhoods weren't integrated, and neither were play dates. By the end of an hour, though, we'd forgotten that we were "different," and were just kids. I never looked back.

I hope it works that way for you, too.

I'm grateful to my mom, and my grandparents, for making sure that I grew up with a rainbow of people, of culture, and that we welcomed and celebrated diversity.