Heard something GLORIOUS yesterday

A kid on a cell phone, couldn’t have been more than 7 but not real young either, keeps saying “huh? What’s THAT?” then asks her mom “Mommy, whats a ‘nigger'”? I thought I would not live long enough to ever hear such a thing. An American child, race indeterminable, who knows, she was darker skinned even than me, asking her mom to define that Hateful Word. I had rehearsed before for what I would say if anybody ever asked me that, not much expecting it, “well, child, it’s a stupid word made up to make other people feel bad”. I didn’t have to say it to her. Raising a child is the momma’s duty, and bless my soul that child was Raised Properly. 7 years old and hadn’t had that Hateful Ignorant Word stamped onto her vocabulary. This is a thing of Historic Beauty, a turning point maybe. I hope it isn’t too late.