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For the most part, I try not to give parents advice on how to handle their little gremlins…I mean children. I don’t have any, and I’m not really planning on reproducing anytime soon. Some people need a bit of help though, apparently, because they’re doing it wrong. I had an experience recently that made me think that this was something that needs to be said, though I think it should pretty much be common knowledge at this point in America.
I was walking into my apartment building in the late afternoon, and there were kids outside playing, which is pretty normal where I live. Just for a bit of background, I’m a mid-(late?) twenties black guy, living in a beach town where the population is 92% white (I did research, because I’m a motherfucking professional). As I’m about to go inside, I hear, “NIGGER!” come from the direction of the children playing.
I’ll spare you the play-by-play, but this little asshole made me turn into the neighbor that has to have conversations with parents. Everybody hates that guy. I don’t fucking want to be that guy, and definitely didn’t think I’d turn into that guy in my fucking twenties. If a child is saying things like that, it’s probably something that they learned at home. So fuck whoever had a hand in teaching this kid that it was cool to scream racial slurs out in the middle of an apartment complex. On a serious note, I can’t even describe the feeling of hearing that, especially considering the current state of race relations in the country right now.
When kids have things like that in their heads at such a young age, they eventually become full-grown pieces of shit, and spend their entire lives thinking that it’s totally acceptable. It can lead to what I’d call one of the worst after-sex lines I think I’ve ever heard: “My parents are really racist, so I like having sex with black guys, because it’s like a slap in the face to them.” I beg your fucking pardon? If you never felt like a piece of cattle, or a character from Django before, a statement like that will do it for you!
I can almost accept that racist grandparents, parents, and even people my age are set in their ways. It’s pretty much a waste of everyone’s time to try to change their minds, because they’ve been idiots for decades. It isn’t fair for kids to have these terrible ideas about people in their heads for their whole lives, because many of them won’t even have a fighting chance to think and behave like civilized humans.
Think of all the different labels that exist based on people’s personal opinions and choices. Liberal/conservative, meat-eater/pain-in-the-ass…I mean vegan. You may fall into one category or another, but they’re all tolerable. But racist? I feel like at this point, it’s embarrassing to even have someone suspect that about you. Save your kids the trouble, and take advantage of the opportunity to raise an awesome person.
I think everyone is pretty sick of hearing about race in the news, whether it be because you feel like you’re a victim, you think the claims of racism are ridiculous, or simply because you think it’s annoying. If kids aren’t brought up in racist, sexist, homophobic, [insert other prejudices here] environments, chances are they won’t continue the practices.
Believe it or not, kids actually pick up things from the people around them, and it shapes who they become when they’re older. Make sure you don’t raise a little shithead like the one I encountered recently, and everyone wins. It’s still possible there will be a new generation of people who actually have a bit of sense..
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Brian didn’t raise any racists
First black guy to write for a Grandex site?
Great article. Moral of the story: don’t be a dickhead.
Coming from someone who is fairly white (See any of my photo submissions on here as evidence), the closest thing I can relate to is that I have seen this kind of thing happen before. It is fucking awkward and sad. My parents didn’t raise me to be like that, thank God. Living with that kind of hate isn’t good for you.
Hard to believe stuff like what happened to you still happens in 2015.
Oh the sweet sweet irony of this gif. No where in America is racism and bigotry more prevalent than among the elites of Hollywood.
Here’s an alternative Gif because Fry is definitely not racist. Now if you excuse me I’m going to go back to bed and drink more whiskey.
https://pgparchive.wpengine.com/the-5-guys-we-all-mistakenly-date-after-college/
Love this
People like you are the reason they took away our forums and won’t give them back.
Ah looks like that they deleted big tex’s comment. That above convent was in response to his racist rant.
It was joke little guy
Your joke was racist and degrading. Please use condoms and don’t procreate, we don’t need any more of your kind on this planet.
Also, don’t call me little guy. I’ve contributed to this site for a while now. You have been a member here for ten months and haven’t gotten anything published. If i wanted any lip from you, I’d jiggle my zipper.
Taking online comments too seriously to make up for an unimpressive insurance sales job. PGP.
Wow, even the douches are bigger in Texas 🙁 #TeamPeptoBismol
What a bunch of self righteous blathering. You know what else kids pick up from others? A culture that glorifies crime, and a culture that is excessively dependent. Your article has zero credibility in that it isn’t intellectually honest enough to acknowledge that racism works both ways (GASP!). The kid absolutely shouldn’t have said it, but I’m guessing the kid didn’t grasp the gravity of the word, although blacks sure pass it out casually. In my hometown, two cops were gunned down this weekend with their guns still in their holsters and more than a few idiots took to social media to celebrate it, but clearly this kid’s words are the bigger problem right? Liquori Tate gave his life to a job he loved in service to others and trying to improve things in dangerous neighborhoods, but you just whine. Society needs more Liquori Tates and fewer self righteous whiners.
I’ve got a question. Who’s to blame for Baltimore and Stl riots? First of all its not the “racist” white police, its an entire culture of welfare, government dependent, and fatherless ass clowns that somehow think its OK to run around acting like savages. So fix your own culture first and stop putting your hand out for the American society to provide for, then maybe people won’t raise kids to think its a culture of degenerate fucks that are most often a menace to society and a huge pain in the ass. Lastly, please tell Al Sharpton to bathe with a toaster if you want any sort of advancement.
Why ask a question if you’re going to answer it yourself? Your mind is already made up. In case you missed it in the column, “I can almost accept that racist grandparents, parents, and even people my age are set in their ways. It’s pretty much a waste of everyone’s time to try to change their minds, because they’ve been idiots for decades.”
Wake the fuck up, buddy.
“I’m not a racist, but if black people weren’t all so terrible I wouldn’t have to say racist things!”
so you are going to raise your children to be racists because some people depend on welfare and the government? Cool story, bro.
First no I’ll raise them not to be a burden to society. Second I’ll say when I see shit on the news about things like Baltimore it makes us look like a 3rd world shithole. Have some fucking dignity and stop living like fucking animals and then pointing the finger cause you’re too fucking worthless as a society to look in the mirror and blame yourself.
You’re the reason we have to put warning labels on drano…