Colored People

April 5, 2006

Daddy (holding open a picture story book): Let’s read this story tonight.
Po: No I don’t want to read that story.
Daddy: Why?
Po: I don’t like it. I want the first story.
Daddy: But you’ve already read the first story, you haven’t read this one.
Po: But I don’t like this one.
Daddy: How do you know, you haven’t read it?
Po: I don’t like brown people.
Daddy: What does it matter what color they are?
Po: I like light colored people.
Daddy: Do you like yourself?
Po: Yes, I like myself.
Daddy: But you’re brown.
Po: I like brown people I know.