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Mar. 23rd, 2006 12:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lisamoeTonight we went to the PAC to see Hairspray. Most have you have likely seen the movie if not the play, but if you haven't, in a nutshell it's a comedy about a fat but talented girl who manages to get on to 60s dance show and wants to integrate it with her black friends, while also getting the cute guy and having the best hair. It was fabulous by the way, and Jesse pronounced getting to see a Broadway musical "the very best night of my life" so I guess it was worth the $50 to get him a ticket, though now I may have to get him acting lessons too, but that's another story.
Anyway, in the car on the way over, I reminded Jesse about the civil rights struggles of the 50s and 60s and how it used to be before that, to make sure he would understand that theme in the show. In the course of that, I told him that he could ask my Mom what it was like back then when she was a kid and about any protests she remembered from the 60s or anything since she lived through those days. He then asked me, in all seriousness, "So back then, was Grandma a black kid or a white kid?" Speechless for a moment, I answered, trying not to laugh, that Grandma was a white kid. THEN he asked me if he knows any black kids. So I told him which kids at his Campfire (who he has known for four years!) are black and he looked at me like I was nutty. You know, other people don't register on him the way numbers and facts do, but that was a little weird even for him. Gotta love that kid though. :-)
Anyway, in the car on the way over, I reminded Jesse about the civil rights struggles of the 50s and 60s and how it used to be before that, to make sure he would understand that theme in the show. In the course of that, I told him that he could ask my Mom what it was like back then when she was a kid and about any protests she remembered from the 60s or anything since she lived through those days. He then asked me, in all seriousness, "So back then, was Grandma a black kid or a white kid?" Speechless for a moment, I answered, trying not to laugh, that Grandma was a white kid. THEN he asked me if he knows any black kids. So I told him which kids at his Campfire (who he has known for four years!) are black and he looked at me like I was nutty. You know, other people don't register on him the way numbers and facts do, but that was a little weird even for him. Gotta love that kid though. :-)
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Date: 2006-03-23 07:01 am (UTC)My neice's husband is black but is such a non-issue that they were married for five years before anybody mentioned it to me. No wonder I don't "get" Guess Whose Coming to Dinner.
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Date: 2006-03-23 05:46 pm (UTC)The trainer at my Beginning Leader Training class was telling us about her daughter filling out an application to travel with the Girl Scouts (or some sort of app). It asked her if she knew people of other ethnicities and how she dealt with them. She couldn't think of any, she said she didn't know any at all. Then her mom (the trainer here) started listing friends that were Indian, Asian, etc. The girl had never really realized that these other kids were different, though they had different cultural backgrounds.
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Date: 2006-03-24 08:16 am (UTC)It is nice to know someone who is raising their kids right.
Thank you.
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Date: 2006-03-24 02:51 pm (UTC)This is funny, one day a couple of years ago he was surprised to find that men could be doctors too. His doctor is a woman, mine and his Dad's are too and it never occurred to me to explain that, cause we all grew up in a world where men were the doctors, you know, so that's not something you need to mention. But I guess I did, lol. Live and learn.