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[rayzentz AT aim.com]

I do.  It was a rhetorical question.   Year ago, when I was only about 
8 or so, my aunt married a black guy from California.   I thought he 
was very cool, and we got along famously.   My parents were very 
welcoming, and they both spent many occasions at our house, along with 
my two new cousins, his boys from an earlier marriage.   They were just 
a couple of years older than I.

Years later, I discovered that for a time, he and my aunt were not 
welcome at the house of my grandparents.   It seems my grandparents 
were prejudiced enough that they dis-owned my aunt.   They did get over 
it, and my uncle became an accepted member of the family.

I did not understand this prejudice then, and I still do not understand 
it now.   There are plenty of things about people by which they can, 
and probably should, be judged.   Skin color, and other accident of 
birth, should not be among them.   I will always be greatful to parents 
who raised me to be color blind, and to judge others based on their 
character, and their actions.

Ray


-----Original Message-----
From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 2:32 pm
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Judgement indicators



On Oct 7, 2008, at 2:02 PM, rayzentz AT aim.com wrote:

> Obama has had several hills to climb, most especially having a black
> father and a white mother. His judgement appears to have surmounted
> all of those hills.
>
> > Which was the problem?   The white mother?   or the black father?

Many people are prejudiced against black people for one or more
reasons. Many of those people, and many others, have strong, negative
feelings against mixed-race marriages. A child of such marriages has
that negativity to live with.

But I think you know that.

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