I know, I feel bad for him, he said the kids talk like this in school. I’ve raised him with a strong sense of being color-blind. Taken him to other countries starting at a young age, not to mention I was born over-seas with half of our family still in Europe. (Been able to share with him my mother’s Franco stories).
He is a very open minded kid, so it’s a serious insult for someone to say that to him. But, I need to remind him to ignore people who say that - the only people who talk like that are the ones who are not color blind and thinking about race too much and not the issues. It starts young, doesn’t it.
It sure does. The thing to remember (and it's taken me most of my 33 years to figure this out) that when people say those things, it's never about YOU, it's about THEM. Like you said, because they see things in color, they assume you (general you) do, too. Sad really.
put in gods hands people.