...color-blind...

My classroom is connected to another classroom by a door in the corner.  The teacher in the room that this door leads to is a Spanish teacher.  Every once in a while he will pop into my classroom to get some papers out of our printer, ask a question about a class, or something like that.  Often times when he comes in we will talk to each other in Spanish.  It certainly is not for the purpose of hiding our conversation from our students, seeing that 40% of our school's population is Hispanic.  We just do it.  (Usually we intentionally do not use a Latino accent to make it a little more entertaining.)

Today he opened the door, and as usual we began speaking in Spanish.  After he went back to his room a student said, He's white!  I don't understand why he is speaking in Spanish when he's white!

As another student attempted to explain that he is a Spanish teacher, he turned to me and yelled, Wait!  You're white too!

Hmmmm....was he just realizing this?

Maybe we are on our way to achieving the so-called color-blind mentality people talk about after all...