Hope I don't get flamed for this, because it was just a little kid speaking, and it was cute at the time. In 2nd grade, the teachers all ask what you want to be when you grow up.. Of course all the little boys want to be cops and firefighters and astronauts...And all the little girls want to be nurses and princesses and mommies. My teacher got to me and it went like this:
Mrs. Straight (yes, real name): Amy, what do you want to be when you grow up?
Me (Head held high): I want to be black.
Mrs. Straight: No, no honey, I mean what do you want to DO when you grow up??
Me (getting irritated): I want to BE black!!!
That crotchety old woman CALLED MY PARENTS
to 'let them know the things I was saying in school'...
I never did like her...
When I got a little older and realized I couldn't make any money just 'being' someone, I decided being a vet or a doctor would be in order.