When my son was in preschool, he had a best-friend he talked about constantly. Barry this, Barry that. He wanted to be just like Barry.
My blonde blue-eyed baby wanted hair just like Barry's. OK, I said, we can do that. What does it look like? It's really short, said Ammo, and kind of fuzzy. I'll show you at school. Of course, when I finally met Barry, he was black and definitely nappy, and I had to tell Ammo that he just couldn't have hair like Barry. He was very disappointed. They stayed best friends for years anyway and his mom and I laughed about that story a lot.
I agree that the real message, the one that seems far more important, is that of the objectification and degradation of women. In fact, making it racial covers the true problem. But of course, race is Al's agenda. |
