Comments on: Next week is a big week http://gminks.edublogs.org/2009/01/16/next-week-is-a-big-week/ Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:45:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: NKW http://gminks.edublogs.org/2009/01/16/next-week-is-a-big-week/comment-page-1/#comment-247 NKW Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:07:00 +0000 http://gminks.edublogs.org/?p=144#comment-247 Out of the mouths of babes.... My daughter came home from first grade on Friday and casually asked me, "Mamma, do we have white skin or black skin?" I was taken back by the question - not because she didn't know - but wondering what prompted her to ask the question (a crash course in the history of MLK at the grade school was no doubt the catalyst for the question). So when you talk about "the importance of race and class in our society." and how lucky I am to "have never felt oppression due to race or class" I would respond that I am lucky to have been raised by a family where race and class didn't measure one's worth - and so far - with my daughter's question - I feel that I am passing those values on to my children. Out of the mouths of babes…. My daughter came home from first grade on Friday and casually asked me, “Mamma, do we have white skin or black skin?” I was taken back by the question – not because she didn’t know – but wondering what prompted her to ask the question (a crash course in the history of MLK at the grade school was no doubt the catalyst for the question).

So when you talk about “the importance of race and class in our society.” and how lucky I am to “have never felt oppression due to race or class” I would respond that I am lucky to have been raised by a family where race and class didn’t measure one’s worth – and so far – with my daughter’s question – I feel that I am passing those values on to my children.

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