She's Black?!

Casey babysat 2 sweet, sweet kids last night at our house. The little girl who is 5 began telling me about our new President. She informed me that he is an African-American (in case I did not know!). As we began discussing how far "black-skinned" people (as she put it) have come in America and the equality they have acheived my 5 year piped up, "I don't think I have any black friends." Knowing full well that she does I said, "Baby, yes you do! Trinity is your friend, you play with her every week and she is black." (Technically Trinity is mixed but she has the beautiful brown skin, dark, dark eyes, and crazy cool curly hair!) Cody replied, "She is?!"
Then Casey said, "Oh yeah, and Addison is African-American too! I don't even see her as black, I forget that she is because she's just.....a friend!"
So we begin talking about all of our friends and neighbors who are African-American and they keep saying things like, "Oh yeah!" and "I always forget that!"

So here are 2 things I learned last night:
1. That I don't want my kids telling people that they don't have any black friends, because they do!
2. That it is AWESOME that they don't see their friends as black, white, Hispanic, Latino, Chinese, Armenian, German, Liberian, Russian, Panama Indian, or Native American, they see them for who they really are.....friends.