browngirl

Thanks for sending us this post - very illuminating. I am aware that humans can be stupid and insensitive toward each other for the most foolish reasons, but it the depth of that stupidity still surprises me. I am an optimist, I guess. Tyra Banks has an afternoon talk show which sometimes surprises me by the wisdom and intelligence of its producers in the subjects they choose to discuss. (I know I wrote to you about the amazing and sensitively handles show on transgendered people.) She had one show which clearly showed the ethnic prejudice attached to people's perceptions about names. She had a group of ethnically varied men and women discussing their first impressions of someone with a certain name, then showed them the photos of the ones with that name which were the cutest little kids you can imagine. It clearly brought up the stupidity of ethnic prejudice as it showed that the pejoratives connected with the name were definitely not connected to the child. When will the human race mature and get over itself?