Reply #58: Well, not so much race as color.

[NOLALady]

I was aware of the many different colors in my neighborhood, but I didn't believe one was better or worse than the other.
I was about 7 or 8, at a movie with a classmate. She was extremely pale skinned and blond. When it was time for the intermission, she told me to give her my money and she would get our snacks. I asked why. She patiently explained that she would be waited on before I would because she was lighter. I gave her the money and stood back to watch. Sure enough, all of the light skinned kids were waited on before the darker kids.
WOW! I learned a lot. I hadn't noticed that before but from that day on I started paying attention.

BTW, the clerks who attended to the fair skinned kids first were dark skinned blacks. I don't think it was a conscious thing with the clerks. They probably would have chosen the blond doll.

I was a bit older before I had a handle on the race thing. I'd hear adults discussing blacks and whites but I couldn't tell who was who because the blacks and whites in the neighborhood looked similar.