Many years ago there was a little girl that was 1/2 white and 1/2 black

[Horse with no Name]

She was a friend of my daughters and played softball with her. One of the most beautiful girls I have ever seen--along the lines of Vanessa Williams beauty.
My daughter invited her over to spend the night.
I picked them up after school and before she got in my car, she asked me if I KNEW she was 1/2 black.
It stunned me but I said that yes I did.
She said she just wanted to make sure because THAT was not okay with some of the parents.
This child was around 8 at the time.
I wish I knew where she was and how she is feeling TODAY after the victory last night. I don't know if the taste of victory can ever wash out the stench of racism that that particular child felt when she was younger...but I hope it at least dimmed it.

[YOY]

1. If she is alive and well she's cried at least once for joy.

Like I am right now.

[bbernardini]

2. That little girl's name? Harvey Fierstein.

And now you know...the REST of the story.

/This is what my brain comes up with when you combine uncontrollable giddiness with a lack of sleep.

[Bunny]

3. .

:spray:


:rofl:

[sinkingfeeling]

4. I have a 2 1/2 year old granddaughter just like that. I taught her to say, "Go, Obama!".

[Jane Austin]

6. I do, too!

Mine will be two in January.

She's beautiful AND brilliant!

[iamahaingttta]

5. When I was about 6 and 7 years old...

...in the late 1960's, my best friend was another little kid who's mother was black and father was white.
We used to sleep over each other's house, played in the playground and went to camp together.
We lived in New York City, in a place in Queens called Lefrak City, and it never occurred to me that there was anything unusual.
Because there wasn't.
Most of my other friends at the time were Chinese, Korean, Guatemalan, Indian, Vietnamese, and several Jewish kids who were the children or grandchildren of holocaust survivers.
There was never anything unusual about any of it.

When I was 9, we moved to a sweet little suburban town in Northern NJ.
That's where I learned that there was racism in the world.
There wasn't much of it in that little town, at all, but enough that it was a lesson.
Everybody should have spent some of their childhood in a place like Lefrak City as it was in the 60's.
Maybe we'd all be a little better off!

I wonder what that little kid is up to these days?

[indepat]

7. I remember how beautiful that little black girl of about ten who would come to our house to play

with our daughter of the same age when being country was not cool: she grew up to reign as Miss America. :)

[pansypoo53219]

8. my best friend when i was about 6 or 7 was black

carla moved away soon after, i hope she is enjoying this. and the 1/2 black friend i had later-mona. and all the black friends i had. and so many other black people in my life. heck. i love this cause my father was mostly absent as well.i love that obama had a single mother!