Excuse me, but no black kids in my school had to endure one fifth of the ridicule I went through when Laugh-In was on TV and featured the Farkle Family. You have NO IDEA how horrible it was for me, the tallest, palest, brightest-haired target in town (so it seemed when I was 12) but that's okay. I guess it only hurts and holds him back if someone calls a kid a racist name. All the kids who live through the fatso, ugly, funny-looking, retarded, clumsy, egghead and other remarks for years have secondary misery to YOURS. How compassionate you are.
But enough of that - I am completely over it. I don't want sympathy, special treatment or recognition for surviving the Farkle Family years. Not will I give anyone my age any special sympathy for living through the slavery and oppression years.... because they are SO over!