I just started my job this week at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. Apart of the job is to take a tour of the museum and to express how we felt about a particular exhibit.One of the exhibits are called " Power of Children". This exhibit is centered around Anne Frank, Ruby Bridges, and Ryan White. The exhibit has different displays about the children's' lives and the different obstacles they went through and how it applies to us today and maybe even changed someones life. The next day a 57 year old Caucasian co-worker felt it was appropriate to tell me that she was inspired by the 'Power of Children' exhibit and was very touching to her, but specifically the Ruby Bridges display. At this point I wasn't sating anything because I wasn't sure where this conversation was going. She goes on to say "I knew people who had colored maids"....."colored children were treated badly"....."My children weren't taught to say 'nigger'" .....At this point I felt like she was using that whole conversation to say those words. Whether she was or not, it had to be one of the most uncomfortable conversations I've had in my life. I don't understand how she could even feel OK about using those words in the same point to banish then. How can a person relate their positive feelings with a link to a negative adjective?