white kid in black gradeschool • 15 days ago −"Jen" BTW is the white woman whose model of "reaching out" we're supposed to follow.
As I white kid whose well-meaning parents enrolled him in a majority black school for the same noble reasons as "Jen", I just have to say that that decision is really negligent. I love how she makes it about herself. I love my parents dearly and have never told them about how lonely and terrifying it was to be one of the only white kids in my grade school. I love them too much to put that kind of guilt on them. I was constantly teased, picked on, and bullied by a few kids... and even the nicer kids never seemed to display any sort of empathy. Given the state of race relations in this country, and the overt disdain black people have for whites, I don't suppose I see how that would be surprising. Whites only think racism goes one way... they have no idea what its like for those of us in the trenches. Especially kids. 2054 15 •Reply•Share ›
I think it is disgusting that parents make their little kids live their own noble reasons. They want this, THEY should be the only white person in some black group, not their little kid.
My mom moved us into an ‘integrated’ neighborhood out of an upper scale one, for the ‘experience.’ For liberal guilt. I was at the tail end of high school and stayed at the same school. My younger sisters and brothers ate kaka at the local schools from the rough black lower class kids. My youngest sister was slugged with a baseball bat while she was riding her bicycle to school, 2 blocks away. My brothers were held up in the bathrooms, lost their pocket money over and over and over.
I think it is reprehensible to make your kids live YOUR liberal guilt.