Posted on 10/31/2017 6:24:16 AM PDT by Bon of Babble
Parents!
Remember these rules for dressing your kids for Halloween:
The Raising Race Conscious Children blog offered the following advice on how to have a white supremacist-free Halloween:
1. White parents who want to dismantle White supremacy have a special burden to check their entitlement on Halloween—and make sure that their children’s costume choices are not reinforcing a culture of racism.
2. Dressing up as a White person (from the dominant culture of power and privilege) is not cultural appropriation—but consider the development of children’s healthy racial identities on Halloween.
3. Halloween is an opportunity to have a conversation with your child about race, power, and privilege.
(Excerpt) Read more at truthrevolt.org ...
I quit doing Halloween because of it. Leave the lights off and if someone actually rings the doorbell just ignore it.
About 10 years ago I noticed they were trucking them into our neighborhood. A steady line of cars down our street following the little black and brown kids as they trick or treated. They don’t live here that’s for sure. We had hundreds of kids and it went on steady til 10:00. I ran out of candy. That’s when I quit. Screw em.
Oh yeah, we live in a country club neighborhood.
Cute!
Oh, yes! I live in a “country club” i.e., “White Privileged” neighborhood - and they’re bused in by the bus load. There are very very children in our neighborhood. Went through 450 pieces of candy last year b/f I turned off the lights and put a sign out that said “OUT OF CANDY” - they banged on our door until after 10 PM. Wasn’t happy.
My neighbors just installed fencing around their property b/c of Halloween - he had a lot of very nice decorations and they were all stolen last year.
Asked husband to fence off our property too - I can give out candy at the gate. I enjoy seeing the kids and 99% of them are polite - but there are far too many of them now.
Yes, so true.
I have been a professional high school teacher for 30 years and the level of depression among my students is staggering.
I live in one of those type of neighborhoods too - mostly elderly. There aren’t many of us who pass out candy on Halloween on my street - but that doesn’t stop kids from being bused in from all corners of the city. I went through 450 pieces of candy last year before I ran out.
Husband made a large sign that said “OUT OF CANDY” - didn’t stop them from banging on our door until after 10 PM. There were groups of 15 kids that came at once - many groups like this. They certainly weren’t from our neighborhood. I knew to take in my decorations after the candy ran out.
Husband wants me to lock up the house and turn off the lights - but I enjoy Halloween, enjoy seeing the kids, most of whom are very polite.
The fun Halloweens of the past are just that—in the past!!!!
Now its all so macabre—and it’s all too easy for “progressive” politics to be a part of it!
Remember, ... today is HEX Tag.
You can control things, and make an event for your kids the way you want it to be.
There are things we did as kids that I’d never condone kids doing today - the world just isn’t the same. But I wouldn’t entirely surrender all that fun and magic so that my kids never knew it, either. You just have to find ways of doing things.
Did you ever notice that most vampires are white?
Wackos. Wackos everywhere you look.
I’m an Orthodox Christian, so here it is:
https://orthodoxwiki.org/Halloween
Why not celebrate St. John Kochurov (commemorated Oct. 31), who is both an American and a Russian saint?
https://oca.org/saints/lives/2017/10/31/103122-priestmartyr-john-kochurov
We Orthodox Christians are called to shun many worldly practices, yet our lives can be filled with joy!!!!
I appreciate all of these celebrations. But I don’t personally find a little kid-fun at Hallowe’en to be incompatible with religion.
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