Racist graffiti at my preschool yesterday!

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How could this happen at my preschool, where black, white, Latino and other kids play together, without regard to race, gender, future sexual orientation, etc.? I actually published a scholarly article 20 years ago about racial identity formation in a multicultural environment, the mother-and-child drug rehab where I worked at the time. If you know my real name, you may have seen this article if you've Googled my name, just to make sure I am who I claim to be. Heh. Of course, there was no racist graffiti at my preschool. I am just posting a racy title in hopes of luring readers in, so I can make my Totally Arbitrary MyLot Goal this month. We often use sidewalk chalk at the preschool, and I teach the kids to draw smiley faces and other things. One of the teachers decided to write the children's names down outside, where they spend much of the day playing. When She wrote Keke's name, she replaced the first "e" with an "i." When I saw it, as a half-Jew, I was deeply offended. Or not. I actually laughed out loud in silence. The word, as she spelled it, is a derisive term for Jews, about equal in venom to a white person calling a black person a "n*gger." The person who wrote it is Mexican-American, and has probably never heard the term, "k*ke." It reminded me of when one of my college students, from Nicaragua, called people of color "colored people," a politically incorrect term for people who are not of purely European ancestry. Anyway, I did not mention the offensive/funny word to the person who wrote it. And all I did to "correct" my college student was say, "Ah, so you think people of color..." I love living in California. We really are pretty "diverse" here. It makes for some pretty funny slips of the tongue. Or of sidewalk chalk.