I was driving with my daughter Rebecca and one of her friends the other day and they were singing to the radio and a rap song came on and I changed the station. I just don’t like rap and I don’t think eight year olds need to listen to it. When I changed the station Rebecca’s friend asked why I changed the station and I explained that I just did not think they needed to listen to it and besides I don’t like rap so I did not want to listen to it.
The reason I am mentioning this is because her friend said “I don’t like rap with but I know George likes it”. I did not understand why she would just “know” that he would like it, we never listen to it and honestly George does not like it either he is more of a classic or hard rock kind of boy. I asked her why she thought he liked rap and her answer caught me off guard. She said “He is black so you know he likes rap”. Now I was biting my lip so I would not laugh out loud. This little girl had been friends of ours for five years now, since the girls were 3 so she has grown up with George so I know she is not racist at all in fact she kissed him last year to just get her first kiss over with. That is a whole other entry for a later time.
I don’t understand where she got the notion that every black person likes rap because her parents and brothers are not racist at all, they all have friends of different races. Is there some show on tv that teaches kids racial stereotypes? I wonder what other stereotypes that the kids are aware of, do they think everyone in the south only listens to country music?