The Rainbow is for Everybody
She bought her son a rainbow backpack and steeled herself for the reaction
She bought her son a rainbow backpack and steeled herself for the reaction
Do not assume that a mile in someone else’s shoes compares to a lifetime of walking that someone did in those shoes.
She had hoped he would stop and she could pretend that he had never said those things. Because she desperately wanted her math teacher, the teacher who teaches her very favorite subject, to be nice, to be a good person.
Maybe, just maybe, this could be the year that could go down in family history as the year when someone finally tells Uncle Bill to shut it with all hateful rhetoric and have a brave conversation with him.
We know you often tolerate us, without knowing us. But tolerance isn’t enough. Not in this world.