pronouncing the word red correctly....
 

THAT WOULD BE "RAY-EDD"...... for those of you who need a translator.... :D

My HS had a Tennessean US history teacher who would come into class, tell the students that the topic of the day was "farm policy" and proceed to discuss Kissinger and Nixon's trip to China.

Love your neighbor, love the GAME.
 

The neighborhood I grew up in was like "Hands-across-America". We had 2 Black kids, 2 White kids, and 1 Japanese-Hawaiian. We went to each other's 3rd Birthday parties and attended school together all the way through 12th grade.

We played ball in our dead-end street, be it football, baseball, basketball we were happy to be outside. (Don't see this activity from kids much anymore).

Anyway to get to the butt-feathers here...

We would often rotate our match-ups while playing basketball, weather permitting, we would play "Shirts-vs-Skins". Often it would be the 2 Black kids on one team -vs- the 2 White kids on the other... yet we would still play shirts and skins! We just didn't think about it, hey if that kids a different color than you don't pass him the ball. Duh.

I've run into this issue with partners over the years. Initially I'll admit I was unsure how to address it, but now with "political correctness" screwing with the moral foundation of our country, my position is "if the team didn't want to be called black, they wouldn't be wearing black...it's black!"

The two colors I have difficulty with are orange and purple. Those I'll change to a single syllable color, most likely red and blue.