Hear hear Malte. She wasn't so indifferent as to let Cera die, but she didn't seem to want to do any more than that. Even Littlefoot was pushed in a different direction as Cera ran in another.
That's true, and that's why I don't consider her a hard-core racist. Had she been more convinced of it I reckon she would have answered in more detail to Littlefoot's question about why longnecks can't play with other kinds (rather than cutting of the topic with the promise of many longnecks in the Great Valley). Littlefoot's mother was certainly not a bad character.
Still she was raised as a racist and as for that we can conclude that her parents, Littlefoot's grandparents were racists too. It seems so mean to apply that term to Littlefoot's courageous mother and I cannot repeat often enough that she was a good character and not a hard core racist.
But how would you call (to transfer it to our time) anyone who told a white kid that white kids never play with black kids because they are different and because it has ever been that way. No matter how friendly a person would say this, it would make the person a racist!
It is interesting to pursue the thought about Littlefoot's grandparents. They must have been racists too and despite of their advanced age they learned to overcome their old prejudices. It is admirable to be able to learn such important things at such a late time.
Most of the other Great Valley dinosaurs were most likely racists too but learned to get along with the other kinds. In fact I think the changes that took place were never ever given due credit so far.
