The child was being post-racial and not thinking in racial terms at all. The child will from now on, though.
This reminds me of a workplace incident. I was i a group having lunch and mentioned that it was cotton harvesting season in my agricultural town and that the smell of the defoliant gave me a headache. A black gentleman, just a regular city guy, expressed surprise that they used defoliant to harvest the cotton. An uber lib white guy said, what, you don’t know about picking cotton. He later chastised me for being insensitive to the black colleague. Racist blacks and liberals simply will not let us get over racism and slavery.