Jamie takes rules very seriously and is also driven by a profound sense of wanting to do the right thing. He's also very alert to language. So lately we've been talking a lot about diversity and he's also picked up on some political issues like gay marriage. He announced the other day that one of his friends said that "gay" was when two boys or two girls loved each other and that his Dad had a friend that was gay. We said yes, that's one of the many kinds of families that there could be and that we also had lots of friends who were gay. He was non-plussed by all of this, just wanted to be sure he had it right.
We've also talked about using the phrase "African-American" rather than black and some of the reasons for that. Then yesterday night Connor was describing some of the animals he and Sarah had seen at the zoo and mentioned having seen a regular leopard and a black leopard. Jamie jumped in to correct: "African-American leopard, Connor." There was much hilarity.
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This reminds me of two stories: 1) A friend of mine was working at a video store and put up a little display of what she described as "black comedies," like "Heathers". Her manager looked at it and said, "Shouldn't you say 'African-American comedies?'" 2) Someone was telling a story about a black British friend of ours and just couldn't stop calling him African American.
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