Fictional

“Mommy, why do we call gramma an grampa opa and oma?”

“What makes you ask?”

“No one else at school calls them that.”

“Well it’s because you oma is from Germany and that’s what I called my grandparents. Opa is the German word for grandpa and oma is the German word for grandma.”

“Why do is Sandra called Tia?”

“Because she’s from Colombia and there they speak spanish. That’s why you call your cousins your primos.”

“So our family is Colombian, German, and black?”

“Yup. And a lot more”

“So what does that make me?”

“Beautiful.”

“So why did a kid call me ‘nigger’?”

“Do you know what that word means?”

“No”

“It means ignorance. Do you know what ignorance means?”

“No”

“It means someone doesn’t know a lot.”

“Like stupid.”

“Sort of.”

“Why were they calling me stupid?”

“They weren’t, they were showing how stupid they are. Whenever someone uses that word they show their own ignorance.”