@JeffMesser Are you talking about your parents? My father did not like the lifestyle and did not understand...but he said one does not have to understand everything to know that it was wrong or right...if he saw no harm being done to him or his family, then he accepted it...my father only hated one thing in his life and that was willful stupidity...

@thinktwice oh no I am just talking about haters in general. my bad.

I envy your having such thoughtful parents.

@snytiger6 My dad's best friend in the Army was a black man married to a white woman in the late 50's, early 60's...he came over to our house with his wife and I remember asking my dad why he was so black (I was 5 or 6) right in front of them...my dad did not skip a beat...he told me it was because whoever made people liked to use all of the colors of crayons so he made some white, some brown, some black, some cream, some pink, some yellow...I was thrilled and always used the colors when I drew people...my dad was the best...

@thinktwice That is a great exp0lanation for a kid. Much easier than explaiing how ove tens of thousands of years different people over different parts of the world devloped pigmentation through natural selection that best suited their environments. 5 or 6 may still be a bit young for understanding Darwin.

By contrast, I was 16 before I found out I had an Aunt Barbera. You see she married a black man and my parents thought it would be a bad example for us kids, and may even cause us to marry (heaven forbid) inter racially.