[gargoyle]

...All though I agree with your response, you say racist father. Racist has been lumped in to mean prejudice, bigot, narrow minded, hate filled, for the PC. These words have different meanings. The racism argument/definition is Bullsht!

...But, you might be right about the father being a racist...

[Imal]

Racist has been lumped in to mean prejudice, bigot, narrow minded, hate filled, for the PC. These words have different meanings. The racism argument/definition is Bullsht!

I agree. I think I used the term too loosely. The kid's father, by his actions, comes across more like an opportunist or whining idiot than a racist, per se.

"Playing the race card" can, I suppose, be done by someone who is not necessarily a racist, but using race as a weapon puts a person damn close, in my opinion. Here, I confess to some emotionalism which affected the tenor of my response, but it is, after all, a response to some spectacularly thin "reasoning".

Imal