Posted on 11/12/2017 7:21:58 AM PST by Simon Green
My oldest son, wrestling with a 4-year-old’s happy struggles, is trying to clarify how many people can be his best friend. “My best friends are you and Mama and my brother and …” But even a child’s joy is not immune to this ominous political period. This summer’s images of violence in Charlottesville, Va., prompted an array of questions. “Some people hate others because they are different,” I offer, lamely. A childish but distinct panic enters his voice. “But I’m not different.”
It is impossible to convey the mixture of heartbreak and fear I feel for him. Donald Trump’s election has made it clear that I will teach my boys the lesson generations old, one that I for the most part nearly escaped. I will teach them to be cautious, I will teach them suspicion, and I will teach them distrust. Much sooner than I thought I would, I will have to discuss with my boys whether they can truly be friends with white people.
Meaningful friendship is not just a feeling. It is not simply being able to share a beer. Real friendship is impossible without the ability to trust others, without knowing that your well-being is important to them. The desire to create, maintain or wield power over others destroys the possibility of friendship. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous dream of black and white children holding hands was a dream precisely because he realized that in Alabama, conditions of dominance made real friendship between white and black people impossible.
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As against our gauzy national hopes, I will teach my boys to have profound doubts that friendship with white people is possible.
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Teaching junior to hate white people
Just because the Democrat candidate lost.
A small, small person the writer is.
“I will teach my boys to have profound doubts that friendship with white people is possible.”
They’re going to start a war. And they won’t like the outcome.
L
This writer is a retard.
There’s no other way to say it.
What makes you think we want to be friends with you?
I finally figured out why many blscks think every white person is a racist. They are projecting their own racial animosity upon whites.
it’s their Bread and Butter
Best friend is singular, Mr NYT. The correct answer to his question is one.
White racism is so pernicious that it destroys a continent on the other side of the world.
It is so important that black children be warned that you cannot even be friends with Whitey.
Teach away, racist lady. Your boys will probably still like white wimmin.
But, the author should remember that for every action, there is an equal an opposite reaction.
What about Jews? Since he is a professor at a Jewish University.
I have no black friends. I can count on both hands the number of conversations I have had with a black person, other than at a checkout counter, or in a business context. A black woman lives right across the street from me. We hardly see her. Her daughter does the lawnwork. It’s like they are just not “there”.
Yankah, go home!
Yankah on this!
Ekow...Hopefully, your son is much smarter than you....
Sounds like a case for Child Protective Services.
Lord loves a working man, don’t trust whitey and see a doctor to get rid of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ohBUYQJflU
Generalizations and stereotypes are mechanisms of a small mind. Twain said “Generalizations are no darn good, including this one.”
Many minority children are first ‘imprinted’ with the vague concept of negative racial prejudice while at home.
This is one reason it takes so much effort to fix or remove years later.
Others become spiritually branded with bigotry once they reach the teen years, as a desperate way to achieve peer acceptance. For some groups, there is bonding and status in victimhood, be it from real or exaggerated experience.
The dingbat needs to figure out that SHE and the FATHER (If there is one around) will raise the kid to have friends REGARDLESS of their friends “color” (race)
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