ettiquette

I don't know why it's taken me such a long time to post but I guess I've been busy. So the other day my mil took my kids out to lunch after a nice walk and playtime at the park. While they were there, a kid asked my mil if my son could have this toy. Now that's not such a big deal, but here's how she related the story to me and I quote "a black African American boy asked my mil if my son could have this toy." I was completely shocked. However, she did correct herself when she was going to say black. I've had to work with her on that one, but I just couldn't believe that she had to put that part in. So I asked my husband what he would have said in that same situation, because to me, there was NO point in stating that there was an African American there in the first place, I mean I don't think she'd say that a white kid or caucasion(did I spell that right?) kid asked if he could have this toy. So anyway back to my husband. I gave him the situation and I said, now if that were you, how would you relay the story back? And he said that he would have said some kid walked up to our son and asked if he'd like this toy. I would have said the same thing. I mean, really who cares if the kid was purple or blue or green or whatever. I would have said this kid.....~E.