Getting in touch with my inner racist

Lena Horne or Kate Smith?" When the dust settled, Dash seemed contrite, though restless, and the kids adjourned back to their cartoon show Now, whether Nadja was motivated by sibling rivalry, knowing that her brother's passing comment wouldn't play well, or by a genuine sense of moral outrage (she has always been an exceptionally empathic kid), or-most likely-by a combination of the two is beside the point: I'm trying to dive into my own psyche's deep water here, and only by extension my kids and America's. [...]the first public figure I ever heard Dash refer to was Martin Luther King Jr., although it's true that his actual reference was to Arthur Luther King and the knights of the Round Table. [...]I haven't actually had a black friend I spent much time with since around 1964, when I was in high school.