Re: Can you call someone "Black" these days ?

Young John wrote:

Oddly enough, I've never heard of anyone being presented as a 'Protestant Marketeer' or spent any time at school learning about what Catholics were good at.
I did have a sense of deja vu over the kid's ignorance as to whether she was black or white. In another life, my 10 year old once asked if she was protestant or catholic. At least it was just ignorance, and not something she'd been un-informed about at school.

No offence meant, but I think you're being a little too apprehensive over the misunderstandings of a 6 yr old. The teachers today are under a lot of pressure to make sure that equality is not only understood by their students, but demonstrated whenever possible. 50 years ago, the teachers said and did things to the students which done today would land them in jail. It's more difficult to teach today, but I think the results are much better...
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