Wednesday, January 01, 2003
In Black and White
Dan took the boys to play video games at a pizza place recently. The game they played was some fighting shoot ‘em up game that Mommy would NOT approve of. Eh, whatever, I wasn’t there.
Anyhow, they were discussing the game over pizza afterward. The conversation went something like this:
Devon: Sebastian, you gotta learn to shoot those black guys faster. You let most of them go.
Bastian: Yeah, but it was really hard with those white guys in the way. I didn’t want to shoot the white ones.
Devon: Yeah, but sometimes you have to shoot the white men to get to the black men. You’ll never get to be powerful if you don’t shoot ALL of the black men
Ok, to explain things, the “black men” were the ninjas in black clothes, the “white people” were the innocents who worked at the laboratory where this was all going on and they were wearing white lab coats. My kids aren’t racist, I swear!
