Another installment of....Heard in the Minivan

So we are on the way home from school when Mary asks from way in the back,

"Mom, was grandma alive when Martin Luther King was?"

"Yes",

I replied.

"Was she black or white then?"

Muffling my laugh I said

"She was white".

Then Joel had to probe further,

"What team was she on, the blacks or the whites?"

Looks like we will be studying the civil war AND civil rights movement sooner rather than later. Maybe a better biology lesson, too.