My nephew was running around the house singing an old Beatles song, “All you need is Loooove. All you need is Loooove...Love is all you need.”

My brother looked at me and said, “I see you’ve been letting him listen to your hippie music again.”

I like old Beatles music and yes, my five year old nephew likes it too, if for no other reason than because he hears it constantly. He’s one of the only five year old kids I know who knows most of the lyrics to songs older than either he or myself. He has a hamster named "Jude" The first day he got it he put the hamster on the table, climbed up on a chair and strummed the guitar and sang "Hey Jude" to it and since then the hamster has been known as "Jude" One of my nephew's favorite Beatles songs is “Come Together.” When he sings that song he really gets into it. He makes faces and dances as he sings it.

Now with all that peace, love and hippiness in my I should say that I’m not an advocate of bootleg movies, but at the same time I’ll admit that I’ve come across computer or television screens where a bootleg movie was playing and my eyes just happened to stop and watch the action on the screen, if only for a second. My nephew and I happen to come across one of those magical screens playing a bootleg version of “Across the Universe” and we stopped to watch and listen to the Beatles songs from the movie. We both sat there singing “Come Together” When the song was finished he asked me who was the person who started singing the song in the movie.

I think it was Joe Cocker who starts the song and it ends with one of the actors doing the vocals. I told him that I thought it was “the white guy” who started the song. When I referred to the singer I didn’t mean to use the term “the white guy” in any other way other than to distinguish him from the other singer who I would have called “the black guy” I didn’t see that as being racist nor did I mean it to be racist in any form or manner.

My nephew told me that I was wrong. He said that it wasn’t “the white guy” who started the song.

I rewound the movie and we watched the scene again. It was Joe Cocker who started singing the song and he was “the white guy” When he started singing my nephew said, “See, I told you it wasn’t the white guy.”

I looked at him and said, “Yeah that’s the white guy.”

“No, that’s not the white guy” My nephew said again.

We watched that part of the movie three times and each time he insisted that it wasn’t “the white guy” who started the song. Finally, at the end of the song he pointed at “the black guy” and said, “You see, there’s the white guy.”

I said, “No, he’s the black guy” a little confused by his statement.

My nephew then said, “No, he’s the white guy.”

“No he’s not. He’s the black guy.“ Was I crazy? I must be crazy because I was about to get into an argument with a five year old over the color of a man singing an old Beatles song in a bootleg movie.

“He’s the white guy. You see his shirt? It’s white”

As soon as he said that I was struck by the fact that I just had a “wow” moment. My nephew was looking at the color of the men’s shirts while I was looking at the color of their skin. It just never occurred to me to see the two men in any other way than by the color of their skin, but to my nephew the black guy in the white shirt was “the white guy” because he was wearing white and the other guy was “the brown guy” because he was wearing a brownish colored shirt. I had learned a lesson about the innocence of children and how they look at things through different eyes then we do, or at least than I do...did.