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A little girl wrote this letter to say that she
wasn’t allowed to attend her friend’s birthday
party because she is black.
There was one guest missing from a 10-year-old’s
birthday party Friday after her friend said she
couldn’t attend because the birthday girl was
black.
Harmony Jones celebrated her tenth birthday
with a slumber party last week, but one of her
friends, a white classmate, sent a handwritten
note declining the invitation. “Maby [sic] I will
not be able to come to your birthday sleepover,
because my dad will not let me go because you
are black,” the note said. “Not trying to be races
[sic], but my mom let me go. Happy birthday!”

Harmony met this friend at Highland Oaks
Elementary School in Memphis, Tenn., where they
are classmates. “This is my daughter’s first time
going to that particular school,” Harmony’s
father, Christopher Jones, told WHBQ. “They
strike up a friendship. So what would seem to be
an innocent friendship, [I] never thought anything
like this would happen.” (Jones has not yet
responded to an interview request from Yahoo
Parenting.)
Harmony Jones didn’t let the letter ruin her
birthday party sleepover. Photo: WREG
Jones told WREG that he never expected his
daughter to encounter such prejudice. “It
angered me a little bit, it hurt me that my 10-
year-old girl had to deal with this, and I myself
never thought I would have to deal with this,” he
said.

Still, Harmony didn’t let the note ruin her party
and had a great sleepover, according WREG. And
while Jones doesn’t hold any hard feelings toward
the little girl who wrote the note, he said there’s
a lesson to be learned. “I guess [we] as parents
need to be more aware and conscious about what
we teach our children.”
Credits: https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/little-girl-writes-note-to-black-friend-about-113880069307.html