Reply #10: I wish he had his own show too. [View All]

[Jennicut]

For now, I can catch him on Keith on occasion.

The thing is, I am white. I like people for who they are and always tried not to look at color first, though I do respect the differences between everyone. My closest friend in college was a 6'4 black guy. He was the nicest guy on earth, a year older then me, and we just became instant friends on one of my first days at college. He lived in a dorm close to mine. Needless to say, everyone freaked out about our friendship. His friends, my parents. We just both couldn't understand it. I did come close to dating him but we did not want to ruin the friendship. But it disappointed me greatly when my Mom launched into her rhetoric about how being an interracial couple is so hard in today's society. I guess it was not that long ago, 1996. I thought by 1996 my parents would be more open minded, but no.
It makes me very happy that my own two daughters never really think about the President's race. They know he and his children and wife look different then him but they don't really care. To be 4 and 5 is to notice differences but to not really care so much about them.