“My children are mixed race – Caucasian and Asian. It’s not what I see when I look at them, but it is something they are very aware of. Recently my son, Paul, told me about an incident that happened when he was in the 3rd grade. He’d been reluctant to tell me earlier because he thought it would hurt me. We’d planned a birthday party and invited his entire class to attend. A few days before the party one of the girls came up to him and said, “I’m not coming to your party because you eat dogs.”