The tricky haircut

Black and white friends try to trick teacher with matching haircuts

Jax Rosebush and Reddy Weldon. Aren't they identical? They sure think so.

They're in the same class. They both love to play. And they both have a lot of energy.

So, according to a post on Facebook, when Lydia Rosebush told her son, Jax, last weekend that he needed to get a haircut, he had a fun idea. He'd shave his hair short to look like his friend, Reddy.

"He said he couldn't wait to go to school on Monday with his hair like Reddy's so that his teacher wouldn't be able to tell them apart," his mom writes.

Just one thing: Jax is white; Reddy is black.

Turns out, that didn't matter.

When the buddies, ages 4 and 5, from Louisville, Kentucky, showed up to class Monday with matching haircuts, their teacher played along, pretending to confuse the two. Soon, other classmates were swapping places with each other.

Reddy and his older brother, Enock, were adopted from Africa when they were 2 and 4 years old by Kevin and Debbie Weldon, who are white. They say family isn't limited by race and nationality.

"It's really cool to see that move on from our family right into his relationships with his friends," Kevin Weldon said. "There's an innocence children have that sometimes we lose. If we could get some of that back, I think it would be amazing."

It’s breathtaking to hear such an adorable demonstration of how colorblind children can be and this just shows that none of us is born with racist attitude or hate for others religion and beliefs, these things are learned. That’s why it is so adorable to see children being themselves and not carrying about anyone’s race or their looks. 

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