This is why racism is alive and well in the US today. It isn’t about politicians, it is about parents and what they are teaching their children:
Kids say the darndest things. But sometimes they say shocking things.
On Thursday, 9-year-old Brandon did the latter when he was asked why he wanted President Barack Obama to win a second term outside a campaign rally featuring First Lady Michelle Obama in Daytona, Fla.
“Because if Mitt Romney win, we’ll be going back to the crop fields,” Brandon said, referring to the days of slavery. “We’ll be picking crops.”
The father can be heard off-camera laughing. Obviously, no 9-year-old child would determine through their own reasoning that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney would send African-Americans “back to the crop fields.”
The Rio Norte Line 
‘the father laughing off camera” is more telling than the 9 yoa voicing hate speech
I suppose as parents we all do our own form of indoctrination. I merely state the facts with my boys. In 2008, my oldest son, who was then in school, insisted on voting for Obama. We had some very bitter debates. Now he is married, working, with a house and car payment, and he’s voting for Romney. My daughter-in-law is still in school. Guess who she is voting for?
My youngest son asked me if I hated Obama. I told him I’ve never met the president, but I’m sure he’s a nice enough fella. I told him I just hate his ideologies. What’s that, he asked? What he believes.
I’d love to believe that the fella above used the sharecropper comment to his son as a joke, but the kid seemed as though he was giving a solid and truthful reply. Humor’s tricky, though. Who knows? Maybe the kid was joking…….
I’m getting the giggles now because the other day when we were driving home, I became very incensed by the drivers on those turn-around thingys on 19th St. So I says, “These damn moronic drivers!” Next thing I know, that is my son’s new favourtie word. Everything is moronic…..
Does the spawn of Kells frighten the hello outta ya? 😆
Charges of racism against the Right ==> 180 degree rule
Self projection.
Self projection
== head shaking ==
Only when it comes to group-think, not when you’re dealing with individuals. Once you cross that line, WM is right: it’s an individual prejudice.
There’s racism on what is called the left and on what is called the right. It is about what parents teach. Here’s an example:
“My parents told us that no one can make you feel inferior without your permission. In high school, we read a sad, bitter poem about racism in a black literature course”:
“While riding through old Baltimore, so small and full of glee,
“I saw a young Baltimorean keep a-lookin’ straight at me.
“Now, he was young and very small, and I was not much bigger
“And so I smiled, but he put out his tongue and called me ‘nigger.’
“I saw the whole of Baltimore from May until September,
“Of all the things that happened there, that’s all that I remember.”
The teacher angrily talked about the permanent damage done to this little boy’s psyche. The permanent stain of racism. The assault on the little boy’s dignity. The boy, said the teacher, will never be the same. By the time the bell sounded, everyone was angry.
When I got home, I read the poem to my mother. She was in the kitchen, cooking a pot of greens. When I finished the last line, she turned, big spoon in hand, and looked me in the eye.
“Too bad,” she said, “that boy let something so trivial spoil his vacation.”
Your mom’s brilliant, sweet Wills!
William,
You are/were blessed to have a mother so wise.
Can’t fix STUPID !
Sorry guys but it wasn’t my mom that said this….but she said many things just like this. I just want to point out for as many things that are posted about blacks (many deservedly) that are negative there are just as many positive. My mom wouldn’t allow it and neither would my dad.
This is the from my granddad though:
“Son, the only thing that can hold you back from being successful is lack of effort.”
The country is falling apart and this is no time to try and figure out who plays the race card more. All the people of the United States of America should stand united and all those white or black, democratic or republican that want to blame everything on racism can be left behind.
Enough is enough.
Okay, then. Your grandpa is brilliant and so was your last paragraph…………..silly boy.
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