There was a “Free Speech” blurb last week from a mother/wife in a biracial marriage. She was disappointed in the treatment that she and her child were receiving in Peachtree City, asking for a little love.

I hope she was not directing all that concern toward white people, because I have found the opposite to be the problem.

My wife and I adopted four children: two Korean girls and two light-skin black daughters. With one exception, the problems have all come from black females.

You would not believe the dirty looks I have gotten from black women when I am out with my light-skin daughters.

Once I was carrying on a nice conversation with a black lady as we entered McIntosh High School to find our kids. When she saw my daughter, a horrible look came over her face and she wouldn’t even return my goodbye with anything but a dirty look.

My older light-skin daughter had nothing but problems with the dark-skin girls at McIntosh, to the point of getting shoved down some stairs at the end of the fall semester of her junior year.

We made the switch to Sandy Creek High School where the black students are much more serious-minded, and the administration doesn’t play. A black young lady was the valedictorian the year my daughter graduated.

Normal distribution means that there will be some racists of all colors. So you teach your children that not all people are nice. And that if your child knows that he/she has done nothing wrong, he/she cannot let the opinion or actions of others influence his/her self-image.

It is difficult for us to get ourselves to do the right thing. Imagine the impossibility of trying to compel others to do it. Don’t set your expectations too high. Heaven comes later.

Bill Webster
Peachtree City, Ga.
websterptc (at) aol.com

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