Originally posted by G.P.girl
I really wonder if we're ever going to get over the whole race thing? maybe it would be better if we were all blind for a while
I hope we get over it soon. Like I said, we are ripe for a race riot here. Believe it or not, the KKK is growing by leaps and bounds here. Nobody mentions it, but it is. I checked out their site when my daughter was doing a history report on them last year, and it was SCARY the things they said on the site! Funny things was, that for her report, she wanted to put a burnt cross on the poster... got the teacher's approval first. So here we are, building an 18" cross in our backyard... try as we might, the thing wouldn't catch fire! Seriously! Two of my neighbors (both minoroities) were both out - handing me lighter fluid, nail polish remover, gasoline - all trying to light this dang thing. It wouldn't light! LOL. Gosh, if anybody walked by and saw the three of us tossing highly flammable liquids on a cross to burn! We finally got it lit for like two seconds. We were high-fiving each other for that two seconds! Guess someone was trying to tell us something.

My neighborhood is such a variety of colors. Why don't we get along? Really, I think that living in a town of such diversity should be a good thing. We should learn tolerance of each other's differences and embrace each other and learn and grow from those differences.

When I was growing up, we were THE ONLY Catholic family in a all Jewish neighborhood. Boy, you should have seen my block at Christmas! All dark except my house, which looked like Christmas threw up! But my Jewish friends learned about Christmas from me and I learned all about the Jewish way of life. I knew what kosher meant very young and made my mom buy kosher food so my friends could eat lunch at my house on the weekends! Why can't we do that today? Why can't we teach each other our traditions, what they mean, and why they are special? To this day, I think Hanukkah (sp?) is one of the prettiest holidays. I love the meaning and symbolism behind it.

If we share and listen to each other without bias, we might learn something and grow as human beings.

How did I get to this from a question about Black History month?