My son has basically ended a friendship

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22. But I've noticed its more of a drawn out "A" sound at the end of the word and not a pointed

insulting "ER" that a racist jack ass would use. My co-worker is white, engaged and has a baby with a black man, and she says the "ni double g "ah" all the time. She doesn't do it as a racial insult and no one who knows her would consider it insulting or has felt it was insulting toward them coming from her.

To me, I think she likes a "lifestyle" with music, pants hanging off butt men, clubs... a certain style. Its not that she just likes black men, because she wouldn't look twice at my ex boyfriend who rocks a mean suit and majored in art. Its man who enjoys some of the same types of things that she does.

I think the lines are blurring more and more in certain regions and cities. People date whom ever floats their boats. Bi-racial seems very natural (there is black and white, black - Latino, white - Latino (which is kind of white/ white, but culturally different - kind of like an Italian marrying an Irish person back in the day), Indian - white, black, latino... There are lots of mixes. The lines are blurring in regards to "color". Even on tv and in commercials, its not unusual to see partners pairing with other partners that are mixed. My son's school has many latino families, he doesn't know what it means if his Dad or I say hispanic or spanish people because his friends speak English just like he does (there are a few immigrant children), but its the parents who we are meaning because its our age that is linguinly lacking to communicate with one another. On the other hand, I don't care who my son decides to date sex, color, religion, etc, as long as he's healthy, happy, and in a respectful relationship. So, I'm glad he looks at me funny when I'm trying to discuss ratios and time spent on class understanding if there are multipel bi-lingual children in any of his classes. I wish the kids had "language" time, the kids who need to learn english, spend more time learning english and the children like my son, learning Spanish (he knows a smattering of words anyway, but I'd like him to be bi-lingual in Spanish living in FL and the school system is stupid not to teach a second language when the kids are young).