This Boy's Photo Is Going Viral. If You Look Closer You Will See The Reason Why...
By Timfly
A woman named Lydia Rosebush posted to Facebook about how her son, Jax wanted to have his head shaved hoping he would look more like his friend Reddy from school. The post has since gone viral.
She wrote:
"This morning Jax and I were discussing his wild hair," Lydia wrote. "I told him that he needed a haircut this weekend. He said that he wanted his head shaved really short so he could look like his friend Reddy."
"He said he couldn't wait to go to school on Monday with his hair like Reddy's so that his teacher wouldn't be able to tell them apart," she continued. "He thought it would be so hilarious to confuse his teacher with the same haircut."
As you can see Jax is white, while his friend Reddy is black.
"Here's a picture of Jax and Reddy from their Christmas program," she wrote. "I'm sure you all see the resemblance."
"If this isn't proof that hate and prejudice is something that is taught I don't know what is," Lydia added. "The only difference Jax sees in the two of them is their hair."
The post was shared nearly 32,000 times in less then a week.
"This is total insanity," Lydia said in an interview. "I just made the post because my kid is hilarious and cute. I never anticipated this. It just struck me as funny that Jax doesn't even notice that Reddy is a different color. When he describes Reddy he never mentions it. I thought with all the hate in the world today, we could use this lesson from an almost 5-year-old."
Reddy's parents Kevin and Debbie Weldon adopted Reddy when he was 2 years old.
"My sons do not look like me ... but we are family all the same," Kevin told WAVE. "We share the same last name, love each other with all we have, and are a forever family. One day when I am gone, they will inherit all that I have and carry on our family name."
"It's really cool to see that move on from our family right into his relationships with his friends," he added. "There's an innocence children have that sometimes we lose. If we could get some of that back, I think it would be amazing."
This is a moment that we humans understand as just simply seeing no color lines, no judgement, no race, no hate, no shades. It’s just pure….two kids meeting without a care in the world…all they saw was each other.
Sources: Lydia Stith Rosebush/Facebook, WAVE
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