Brown Fairy

The US is a country where different races are still segregated highly not anymore by law but by culture and economy. Races are separated by their neighborhoods, churches, music, and everything which helps them to be apart. Because of this people coming from different races hardly understand each other let alone empathize with a different race.  That is why last year's mass protest against the killing of Gorge Floyd in Miniapolice was unique. People coming from all races were equally outraged by the public killing done by a police officer who was indifferent to the death of a human being. The protests also show a new America made of young Americans who want to fight injustice united no longer bounded by the race they come from. Young Americans choose to protest not in support of a race cause but to stop injustice. 


Children are not bounded to their race, a child's understanding of race comes later from grown-ups. Anywhere in the world, a child need is to be loved, taken care of, protected, and play.  A child does not see the race of a caregiver or a playmate. Racism is what is imposed later by adults. It is ironic to know many slave owners and racist politicians in the US  were taken care of by black nannies who went to an extent of breastfeeding the babies of their white masters. 


It is refreshing to see that a child's ability to judge a person not by the color of their skin but by their character is gradually been embraced by the new generation of parents. This will hopefully let children grow beyond the race boundaries set up by adults. That is why to see a brown fairy in the middle of a children's play set up in Seattle might be a glimpse of how the next generation of Americans feels
about race. 

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