I LOVED a story I heard recently about two wee boys who wanted to get exactly the same haircut so their teacher couldn’t tell them apart.
Delighted with the result, they set off for school to dupe their teacher. They were bitterly disappointed when it didn’t work.
Neither had realised that one wee boy was black and the other was white. If only the world could be that simple.
I mentioned the subject of musicals recently, and my fondness for the works of Rogers and Hammerstein. The lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein were clever and political. He had a passion for justice and a concern for race relations, always making the point that our differences are only skin deep and that, fundamentally, human beings are the same everywhere.