tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post3697719939421691449..comments2024-02-20T14:00:41.771-05:00Comments on A Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: Kids, Colours, and RacializationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-17389609581083195432007-06-08T13:27:00.000-04:002007-06-08T13:27:00.000-04:00I think a more active orientation towards setting ...<I>I think a more active orientation towards setting groundwork is appropriate too, though...the first time he thinks about that should not be when he hears it on the playground.</I><BR/><BR/>I agree, and I thought about that at the time. I considered trying to broach it now, but then I thought that he's probably too young; if I tried to convey a message like "anyone who says that people with Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-26965148894463241532007-06-08T10:46:00.000-04:002007-06-08T10:46:00.000-04:00I probably would have said something like that in ...I probably would have said something like that in that moment...actually, <EM>Reading Rainbow</EM> was one of the contexts in which he raised it with me, too. I think a more active orientation towards setting groundwork is appropriate too, though...how and when obviously depends on what he is able to understand, but especially if we are talking a couple of years down the road, the first time he Scott Neighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17415106335668233754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-84129560128571563712007-06-08T08:44:00.000-04:002007-06-08T08:44:00.000-04:00L. has occasionally asked me about the colour of p...L. has occasionally asked me about the colour of people's skin before (usually people on TV), as in "why does LeVar Burton have brown skin?", to which I have replied "some people have light brown skin, and some people have pink skin, and some people have dark brown skin, just like some people have brown eyes and some have blue, and some people have brown hair, and some have red or blond, or blackAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-51451229560100554772007-06-07T21:07:00.000-04:002007-06-07T21:07:00.000-04:00Thanks, anonymous!Thanks, anonymous!Scott Neighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17415106335668233754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-25352502006425378002007-06-07T12:32:00.000-04:002007-06-07T12:32:00.000-04:00I think I would have reacted in a similar way, and...I think I would have reacted in a similar way, and I think you're totally justified in being concerned with socially learned negative feelings toward black-colored things.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com