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Obviously the father didn't prepare his son for being called the n word. We can't protect our kids of all what goes on in the world.. it is a bad place with bad people as well as the good.
Somewhere the kid was "taught" that whenever he hears that word aimed in his direction that he should panic and hide. It is just like yelling "bomb" the way he reacted.
Considering white people were rarely, if ever, lynched....
Considering white people are rarely, if ever, shot and killed by police and citizens for undue reasons....
Considering white people are less likely to be convicted of crimes they have committed versus the fact that minorities are more likely to be convicted of crimes they did NOT commit...
You have no clue what you are talking about. This is about more than a word, growing thick skin and/or learning coping mechanisms.
More whites have been lynched than blacks. That is a fact.
There is no need for hate. Honestly the best way to confront ignorance is with violence...
Yeah, because that is a good way to get people to support your cause! Not to mention your resorting to violence could backfire by either making you dead, or in prison! I mean seriously, are you really going to risk throwing your livelihood away and resort to violence over some a-hole dropping the "N" word?
I went off to college and made a wade array of friends of many races, colors and nationalities.
So, one day I had a black guy (not a student) say something extremely racially offensive to me, enough so that I had to consider beating his ass but then considered he had a bunch of buddies with him and my friends with me at the time weren't my "throw down" friends but actually my "nerd friends" who would have gotten slaughtered. So, I walked it off and ignored him.
Later in college, my friend, a complete avowed liberal and pacifist got beat by a mob for "walking while white" after the Rodney King verdict. I drove him home from the hospital that night.
Shockingly, neither of these events made me hate black people....they just made me despise uneducated fools out looking for trouble....I knew the type, in my hometown they were called thugs, punks etc. and the only difference was pigmentation.
The world has plenty of a-holes of every color. Really don't know how you get through it without encountering them at one point and time or another.
Anyone that lets their experiences with those individuals color their opinions of entire blocks of people based upon religion, skin color, gender or whatnot is a fool and has my pity because they probably picked up that thinking from family.
I grew up in a majority black town and went to school at a majority black school. I could hate because of the insulting and offensive things said to me often by blacks (I was the only white guy on the bus and on my basketball team), I could hate all blacks because a group beat my sister unconscious and robbed her and her bf, I could hate all blacks for thoroughly beating up my best friend, I could hate all blacks for stabbing one of my friends...but the truth is that most are not hate-worthy so you have to judge each person according to their behavior.
I realize that blacks have endured horrible treatment as a group in the past. I know my ancestors endured and survived difficult times in their past also...the world is a place you either defend what you have or surrender to the stronger.
My point is that it's a 2 way street in both cases...respect has to be earned.
I went off to college and made a wade array of friends of many races, colors and nationalities.
So, one day I had a black guy (not a student) say something extremely racially offensive to me, enough so that I had to consider beating his ass but then considered he had a bunch of buddies with him and my friends with me at the time weren't my "throw down" friends but actually my "nerd friends" who would have gotten slaughtered. So, I walked it off and ignored him.
Later in college, my friend, a complete avowed liberal and pacifist got beat by a mob for "walking while white" after the Rodney King verdict. I drove him home from the hospital that night.
Shockingly, neither of these events made me hate black people....they just made me despise uneducated fools out looking for trouble....I knew the type, in my hometown they were called thugs, punks etc. and the only difference was pigmentation.
The world has plenty of a-holes of every color. Really don't know how you get through it without encountering them at one point and time or another.
Anyone that lets their experiences with those individuals color their opinions of entire blocks of people based upon religion, skin color, gender or whatnot is a fool and has my pity because they probably picked up that thinking from family.
This is quite possibly one of the most intelligent posts in this entire thread.
I am reminded of a young black gentleman of my acquaintance way back about 1960 or so, who said to me in the course of a conversation at the skating rink one night "You know, one does not have to be black to be a N****r!" Since that time, I have been forced to accept the fact that he was absolutely right. It is a state of mind, an attitude if you will, more than a color. It is simply a fact that there ARE Ns in the world, and probably always will be. Allowing them to have an effect on your emotions is self-destructive.
It is a parent's job to prepare children for the REAL WORLD. It seems to me this parent failed in his responsibility!
From the first paragraph - "I knew the day would come, but I didn’t know how it would happen, where I would be, or how I would respond. It is the moment that every black parent fears: the day their child is called a n-word." (my edit)
Interesting story, but I have to say the only people I've heard use the n-word in the last 25 years or so are other blacks. Most white people wouldn't be caught dead using that word, even amongst themselves. I used it once in 1964 and my father, a Goldwater conservative, slapped me right in the face.
What say you, White Male Republicans who think that the worst form of racism today is affirmative action and minorities accusing Whites of racism?
Funny how you make an all encompassing statement based on 1 case and expect people to believe you.
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It is just like yelling "bomb" the way he reacted.
Not to mention your resorting to violence could backfire by either making you dead, or in prison! I mean seriously, are you really going to risk throwing your livelihood away and resort to violence over some a-hole dropping the "N" word?
