We live in a nice, diverse neighborhood. And so my son’s class is equally diverse (not as diverse as when he had a classmate named Jihad, but anyway). So I am walking my son to school today, and he tells me that his friend–the son of a white Belgian man and a black Jamaican woman, both from their points of origin, not second generation or anything–doesn’t like another classmate to play with them because he’s a vegan (never mind, by the way, that this kid is a gluten-free vegan; I have no idea, besides rice, what he’s eating. He looks healthy, though).

Oy. I asked my son what he was going to do about it, because it was wrong, and he said he told his friend that it wasn’t fair to discriminate against someone. I pointed out that it was just as wrong if someone told his friend they didn’t want to know him because he was black.

We’ll see what happens with that one.

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