My 7 year old son just said "I wish I was black"

[lojasmo]

Mom and I: (nodding apprreciatively) "oh yeah?"

Son: (looking at arm) "hey, part of me IS black!"

Mom: "Honey, that's dirt"

Son: "Oh."

Mom and I: LOLOLOL

[liberalhistorian]

1. Did he say

why he wished he were black?

[lojasmo]

2. so his skin would burn less easily.

N/T

[liberalhistorian]

3. Well, tell him that

being black doesn't protect you from sunburn at all, that's a myth!

[lojasmo]

6. I know, I told him that.

thanks.

[Teddy_Salad]

5. Canard

Totally.

[LosinIt]

4. when my son was ~4 in daycare he came home and

announced that there was a new boy at school and that he was brown and tall. I thought that was so sweet. Very few people could really be called 'black', and he was telling us what he remembered about the new boy.

[lojasmo]

7. Yeah, before today, my son didn't know

What the term "black" was AFAIK. An african american friend of his just said to him: "my whole family is black, exept my mom" We were discussing this when he told us about his wish.