In 2008 my kids started a new school that is 98 percent hispanic, mostly of Cuban herritage.

About a month in to starting the school, my 12 year old son got into an argument with another student, where the other student called my son a black monkey. This hurt my son's feelings. He came home and told us. The next day my husband and I went to the school to report the incident to the principal.  As a result the student was suspended for 10 days.

A week later, another student calls him the N word.  We went to the school again. This time the student was verbally reprimanded because no one else heard him use the word.

Now my son is as pale as these kids are, the only way they knew he was black was because he did not speak spanish, and he read his bio to the class as having an African mother and a Belizean father.

What I'm getting to is that, I suspect that the parents of these kids must be racist at home, that's the only way their kids would go to school and be mean to another student.

My son on more than one occasion has told me that his friend who happens to be Cuban, that his father does not like blacks. The only thing I told my son was, "stay away from the father if you ever see him at school".

I've always told my kids to be tolerance and have an open mind when it came to people of different races. Don't judge and you won't be judged.  My other son, who is 9 also came home and said, "mommy, the kids in my class are really stupid", so I asked why do you say that? That's when he started telling me that some boys in his class told him that black people should go with black people and spanish people should be with spanish people. So I told him that he should tell his friends that that is not true. You should be friends with anyone you feel comfortable with and who is comfortable with you.