Racism

Kate is all about her looks these days and she can agonize endlessly, it seems to me, about whether or not her outfit is cute. Not necessarily warm but cute, matching or kool. What do I know? So I listen because I sometimes spend inordiante amounts of time agonizing over which earrings to wear....So last night's dinner conversation centered on how she didn't like her skin color. Too dark. The darkest in her class. Much too dark.

In fruitless parental style we tried to answer with logica and said that she was the color that she was because she is Chinese. "Yes," she said, "but I don't want people to see me as Asian." Hmm. That is going to be difficult. And then Arnie talked about how people just see your exterior, "Take me, for instance, I look Jewish."

"Which means what?" asked Kate.

"Well, Jewish people have big ears and large noses, like me."

"Is Barack obama Jewish?" she countered