Oh. Good grief. Daughter told me last night that I am “racist” because I expressed concern for our safety as we begin her apartment hunt in St. Louis.
Chatted with an older black woman yesterday while waiting on our rental vehicle. I cried, and she prayed over me.
Prayers for you and your daughter.
“Daughter told me last night that I am “racist” because I expressed concern for our safety as we begin her apartment hunt in St. Louis.”
Good grief is right. Sorry she called you that. Hopefully she saw the woman praying over you. I’ll be praying for your daughter. Safety is safety.. no matter the melanin.
Petey
Chatted with an older black woman yesterday while waiting on our rental vehicle. I cried, and she prayed over me.
A long time ago I was in Chicago for a trade show, and at noon I walked around downtown with a co-worker thinking we would find a place to grab lunch. We drifted a little and a cop stopped us and gave us a bit of safety advice followed by directions to a place he recommended. He was... umm... "not complimentary" about the population we were going to run into on our present course.
I suppose I could have accused him of racism, but calling a black cop a "racist" was something that did not occur to me.
Oh. Good grief. Daughter told me last night that I am “racist” because I expressed concern for our safety as we begin her apartment hunt in St. Louis
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How did your respond? Have to deal with same issues with my kids. We talk a lot about parroting what they read on social media. One thing about COVID is it has given us actual time to talk. I try to use facts and not necessarily refer to Q. I use the resources Q provides us. Have found this to be working with with friends also. Scary to send kids to college these days. I pray a lot.
Oh. Good grief. Daughter told me last night that I am “racist” because I expressed concern for our safety as we begin her apartment hunt in St. Louis.
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Also along those lines a friend called me yesterday upset that some in her Christian circle were telling her that if she was silent on social media then she was for violence. After we discussed this not being biblical I found out the source...a Texas based “Christian” personality. Another friend brought it up at breakfast this morning as being shocked at this same personality comments yesterday. True colors are coming out.
Please ask her if she thinks David Dorn and David Patrick Underwood had concerns for their safety. Remind her they were AA gentlemen with families who were callously murdered by the rioters. Ask her if she will pray with you for their families.
When I was a financial planner, I met with a lady in one of the black neighborhoods in North St. Louis.
She told me that she had been saving money for a long time in order to get out of there and into a better neighborhood and school.
So was that black lady racist because she worried about the place she was living?
Plenty of neighborhoods that are unsavory and they are not all of one color-plenty of white criminals in St. Louis too.