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My daughter is 18 years old – White. She records stats for the her high school boys basketball team, and has many black (male) friends on the team. They have nicknames for each other – They call her ‘cornbread’ and she’ll call them things like ‘dark chocolate’. The other day, she went to prom. A group of 8 kids (all white) and their parents (all white) all met at one families house. One of the girls in the group likes a black kid she goes to school with, but he was not going to prom. She invited him over to the house to see her in her dress. My wife was video taping (I was out of town for the event) but when I returned I watched the tape. What I saw/heard upset me. My daughter, who had *just* met this kid, called him ‘boy’, was calling him ‘dark chocolate’, and at one point had grabbed the video camera, and while filming her friends, she pointed the camera at him (he is very dark skinned) and said, ‘I can barely see you’. So, I spoke to her about being more sensitive to the issue, and pointed out to her that he may have already felt uncomfortable standing around with a bunch of white kids, with their stuffy white parents, and she likely made him more uncomfortable by making such comments. Perhaps he was totally cool with it, but having just met the kid, she had no way of knowing what kind(s) of discrimination he may have faced in his life – What kind of racial comments may have been directed at him during his life, or his level of comfort within a group of white peers and their parents. She suggested that ‘her generation isn’t hung up on race, and everyone her age (black/white/brown/yellow) is cool with such comments. People her age aren’t aware or concerned with racism. We told her it was great the SHE felt that way, but that she couldn’t speak for her entire generation, nor an entirely different race. Any 17 – 23 year olds out there want to clue me in? Is the Y generation the ‘racism free’ generation? Thanks in advance.
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