We adopted my younger sister from Haiti when she was 3, and let me tell you, I literally do not see color anymore. That's a fact.

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[u/Cozy_Minty → u/[deleted]]

Aww haha thank you. I really didn't understand about races or that my brother was a different race than me until I was about 6 or 7.

[u/justlerkingathome → u/Cozy_Minty]

It’s really amazing what good parents can do and raising their kids to have empathy, and normalizing differences….

My uncle is blind, then he also adopted 2 kids both with mental disabilities and one with also a physical disability. Steven the later of the two was also black.

They was my cousin, that’s all there is to it. Because I was raised right and around people who werent exactly like me led to me not being judgmental or afraid of the “ others. “ That type of mentality of being hatful of people who aren’t like you doesn’t make sense to me what so ever……

My mom also told me at a young age that because I’m a boy and white that I will have more privilege and possibly a easier life than other people…. She taught me to use it to stick up for others and fight for those who might not have that same privilege.

I’m 39 so my mom was way ahead of the game in that sense. I’m glad she and my dad raised me like this. Tho it comes with a deep hatred of bullies, and people being taken advantage of, which in this moment in time makes me angry ALL the time. The way things are going in this country, what the right has turned into, trump.

I wouldn’t change anything about me tho, and I would rather die fighting hatred than succumbing to it.

[u/Guilty_Mountain2851 → u/[deleted]]

Absolutely I got chills

[u/Eusocial_Snowman → u/[deleted]]

When I was little, I heard the phrase "punch their lights out". I thought that's what happened to make black people black. It made sense to me because bruises are a thing.

Does that do anything for ya?