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Babble Talk – The Color Blind Kid

Brett Singer — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:00:00 GMT

I'm not one of the people who thinks that racism is over now that Barack Obama is President. (Call me when Black people can hail a cab in Manhattan.)

That said, I do think that it's fair to hope that future generations will be less inclined to judge others by the color of their skin. This quote from Kids Say The Cutest Things illustrates this point:

Six year old Hanna.."Daddy why are Black people Black and White people White"...Daddy "Well because that is the way God made us"...Hanna "Oh..well can you tell God that my favorite color is PINK!"

Aw. Maybe one day we can all just get along. Or at least get a cab.

Read more stuff from kids that will give you nachas for the future of our nation right here. You can also submit your own aspirational aphorisms.

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Store Refuses To Make Cake for Toddler Adolf Hitler

Kelly Mills — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:31:00 GMT

Oh, the hardships of being a white supremecist. Heath and Deborah Campbell tried to get ShopRite and a local grocery store to make a birthday cake for their three-year-old, named Adolf Hitler. And they actually wanted the cake to say "Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler" (I guess just using "Adolf" was out of the question, hmmm?) But apparently they are so persecuted that the stores refused, though the grocer did offer to leave room for their own inscription. The story has some awesome quotes, like Deborah lamenting how sad it is the store can't make a cake for a kid, and Heath saying, "Other kids get their cake. I get a hard time. It's not fair to my children. How can a name be offensive?"

Um, yeah. I have no idea. Oh, and believe it or not, ShopRite won't make a cake for their two-year-old either. Her name? JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell. Oh boy. By the way, Wal-Mart is willing to do the cake.

A psychologist quoted in the story says he believes the names will cause problems for the kids later in life. Hmm, ya think? But he also points out that the parents' views are kinda likely to damage the kids too. Oh, and that any problems they face in school later "would be icing on the cake." Get it? Icing? Riiiight.

Of course Adolf and siblings live in a house decorated with swatstikas, but the Campbells insist the swatstika "doesn't really have a meaning. It's just a symbol." Just a name, a symbol, and a few kids who are gonna have a rough road. Seems like an inscribed cake might be the least of it.

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Does Quoting Steve Martin's The Jerk Make This Politician a Racist?

JeanneSager — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:30:00 GMT

By all accounts, Paul Pugmire might be a jerk. But a racist? I'll let you be the judge.

The Salt Lake City Utah City Council candidate quoted Steve Martin's classic The Jerk on the Website reunion.com early in 2006 - not in campaign-related literature. Pugmire, who is white, began an introduction to his old classmates "I was born a poor black child in Mississippi. No wait, that it something else. Quick summary since HS . . . "

It was almost word for word how Martin began The Jerk, the '79 classic that sits on the American Film Institute's top 100 funny movies (100 Years . . . 100 Laughs). And, surprise, surprise, the person slamming Pugmire most for the comment isn't the NAACP representative in Salt Lake City but the chairman of the city's Republican party. The Republican Chair is black, yes, but he's put up a candidate against Pugmire for council. Pugmire is a Democrat.

Although dubbing a movie (or book) a classic doesn't mean it can't be racist, The Jerk (in case you've been living under a rock) is pretty harmless. It might be the guy's version of Clueless. Or maybe the 1979 version of Forrest Gump? White guy Navin Johnson was adopted by black sharecroppers in Mississippi as a child. The movie begins with him living away from his family, a homeless bum telling his story (hence the narration, "I was born a poor black child . . . "). As dumb as a box of rocks (but apparently not the ones you've been living under), he stumbles from one adventure to the next and comes out on top of the world in the end - back with his family in Mississippi and thanks to his foster father's wise investments, much wealthier. It's one of those stories that lends credence to the thought that racism isn't something our kids are born with. It's something they (unfortunately) learn as they grow up. Martin's Navin never learned a difference between black and white, and he's proud of his family.

Of course, the movie was a comedy. And an often quoted comedy at that. The NAACP is Salt Lake City readily accepted Pugmire's apology and issued statements saying his comments might have been in poor taste but were not mean-spirited. I'd tend to agree with them - especially in light of the feelings I had walking away from the Jerk (and not the ache in my ribs from laughing so hard). Republican Chair James Evans says they show Pugmire thinks poorly of African Americans. What do you think?

Source: Salt Lake Tribune

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Twins Born with Different Skin Colors

Hannah Tennant-Moore — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:20:00 GMT

On July 11, a German couple found out what it feels like to be the "one" of one in a million odds. Florence Addo-Gerth, a black woman from Ghana, gave birth to twin boys with strikingly different features: Ryan has blue eyes and light skin, like his father Stephan Gerth, while Leo has brown eyes and dark skin, like his mother.

Although this is an extremely rare occurence, Leo and Ryan are not the first set of fraternal twins to have different skin colors. And it doesn't only happen to twins: it's possible for any baby of biracial parents to inherit the genetic coding of only one skin color.

Although Gerth and Addo-Gerth anticipate the incredulous stares they'll get when they introduce Ryan and Leo as twins, for now they are simply overjoyed to have two healthy baby boys.

Check out a video of the adorable babies and proud parents below.

Photo: Sky News