Innocent Racial Slur

The other night at dinner, Colton made his first and hopefully last racial slur. We had been reading and discussing the Easter story being that Easter was upon us and Colton had some questions reguarding Jesus’ ethnicity. Colton asked if Jesus was white or brown. Chad answered that Jesus was not white, not black, but probably more brown…and then compared him to some kids that Colton knows so that he could have a visual. You could tell that Colton’s wheels were spinning. He thought for a minute and said, “Too bad I’m not brown.” I was thinking, “Ahhh, he wants to be like Jesus. How sweet.” then he added, “Because brown football players are better than white ones.” Silence……..Chad looked at me and I looked at Chad……..cue the equality speech; cue the equality speech!