Ben at Eclecticsanonymous has an entry up about Prussian Blue again.

For me, the relevant quote in the video he referanced is:  "People change".

To me that is the most important thing in the whole clip.  I have watched the twins casually since they first came to my attention on Jason Bock's blog a while ago.

All along, I have told myself that kids grow up and that people change.

Maybe these unfortunate girls will triumph over their upbringing and learn that you can love who you are. and that it isn't a choice between being proud to be white, or ashamed to be white..."white" is a description, and idea, a shorthand.  It carries fragments of an identity, but only fragments.

Just look at the white supremicists sometimes.  Watch them talk to each other.  They can't even decide definativly what "white" is.

"Race" is a powerful part of a peson's identity...but try to define what it means...it's part of you, but what part?  To what extent?  What is there about your race that you can plant a flag in and say "This is what my race makes of me?"

When you try to do that, you realize how slippery the idea really is, and how futile and unnatural it is to try to define everything you are and everything you think and feel and do by your race.  Just as it is futile and unnatural to do so with anyone else.