Friend Mick, I truly think that the world has come a long way in the last couple of generations.   For the most part, our fathers thought nothing at all of racial differences - that is, it was entirely normal for most of them. Our generation, the children of the 60s and 70s, has realized that these things are just plain wrong and we have done what we can, in our own ways, to eliminate them. Our children, your daughter and mine, don't see these things - like color - as being really major differences between people. Daughter Karen lives in Pittsburgh and, from what she says, her generation sees a very different city than does Mr. Murtha, Friend Azizi and my wife (who is a native Pittsburgher). It is unfortunate that Ciara has people at her school who are socially retarded like that, and I agree that you are lucky.