Children are colour blind – a refrain hopeful parents repeat as we watch our rainbow-nation children playing with their rainbow-coloured friends, seemingly free of the nasty apartheid baggage we remember from our childhood. Many of us have hopes of our children growing up suspended in that “colour blind” stage, finally free of the ugly racial stereotyping, the anger and the guilt that marks our country's history. But of course children do notice colour.
Who hasn't been embarrassed by their child exclaiming, a bit too loudly, a bit too publicly, something along the lines of, “Mom, that doctor is brown!” or, “What? A white beggar?”
Did you know?
Our constitution recognises we're all different and should not be disadvantaged as a result.
