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Originally Posted by allgodsgrace
BUT WHY??? Why---- if it not at all your heart or someone else's heart (If they made a statement that was innocent) would you have to try so hard to be PC as to not offend someone when you are not even "going there?" There are some people who want to look scary and want to put fear in others, it is not racist to say you don't want to be alone in a dark alley with them.
I am a parent of a child who is not white. It is a fact she is not white and honestly I love her skin. I haven't had comments beyond how lucky she is to have a great tan and complexion, or she must like spicy food (because she was eating spicy stuff at the time) because it is in her blood. I am not offended by this, and I would hope parents would not make their non-white children so sensitive to statements like this to start a "race fight" like was started on here.
THIS offends me! It is as though you are telling those of us who were not overly sensitive to the OP statement we need to read up on it.
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Maybe you should actually look at the link before you get twisted over it. It's a link for those of us who are human to help raise our children in an "anti-racist" way. We are all human and open to make mistakes.
While I said it struck me as being racists - I never once said I was offended - there is a huge difference. I have a problem with people (all people) + race = a crime. My MIL was robbed and first thing she said to me was "this big ~whisper~ insert race here~ man took my bag". My response was "I'm not the police and their race means nothing to me".
Stating the boy's color was not necessary and it does come across as racist and as someone else pointed out... if they were white, you would never have mentioned their race.