Shocked! My son and his best friend were helping with the move, setting up my son's bed, making it up with clean sheets,etc., when my mother happened to walk by and began a very disconcerted yet fast growing alarm that my son's friend (early teenagers) was about to place my her bedspread on the bed. (frankly I don't know what to apply to this group of planetary dwellers, for fear I'll say the wrong thing!). It was obvious to me and I knew it must be obvious to him (my son was just confused) that he was going to somehow contaminate the spread! I was sick to my Soul. Wondering how I ever came through this family of racists, I shushed her away; but I FELT his embarassment, his wish to be anywhere else, his emotional and psyhic pain. Desperately I wanted to take the blow for him but of course I could not...never have figured out how to do that. We finished the day out but that memory hangs about my lifescapes, with piercing anger at my mother's behavior & my inability to protect.