[JRandomFreeper]

All of the parents, grandparents, etc are dead these days.

I was looking forward to meeting them at the River. I'll have to wait.

I also will continue to hold those in my world to certain standards. I don't care that I'm pasty white and some of them are very much darker.

I live the "it's not the color, it's the culture" thing.

My current family and friends range from pasty white to coal black. That's much less important to me than how they behave.

Grandad said: 'You don't have to be smart to be good'. And he was correct.

/johnny

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well, you really aren’t anyone’s godfather. You can exhort when the spiritual situation is right, and you can illustrate.

Trying to hold the unwilling stranger or acquaintance to a standard can be a big spiritual rubber burner and not in the will of the Lord at all. He’s gonna head these mavericks off at the pass; you don’t have to.

[PeterPrinciple]

My current family and friends range from pasty white to coal black. That’s much less important to me than how they behave.

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Repeat LOUD and OFTEN. I am a major bigot when it comes to behavior.