Colored People

[Queenie]

In response to the "colored" term being old and insulting: when my great-grandmother (who is 95, has alzheimer's, and is in a nursing home) was shown the cover of a magazine with Obama on it and was told that he's our next president, she said "It's called the White House, not the colored house". Blame it on her alzheimer's for saying it, but unfortunately I think it represents some long-held racism that still exists today.

I don't think this is unusual for most people your Grandmother's age. I have Uncles that are prejudice, and some are probably racists. Unfortunately, a lot of people my age are prejudice by no fault of their own, rather having been raised in a prejudiced society. Prejudice is a thought; racism is an action. I will admit that I have, on occasion, had prejudice thoughts, but try to restrain such as best as I can, and never let it turn to racism.