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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's certainly not just a "slave thing." Plenty of parents do this, but it's more concentrated in the South.

I'd let him take the lead on this, [b]because with biracial (black) kids, he knows better than you how to raise them to be respectful in society[/b].[/quote]

Massive inner eyeroll. In moments like this I pray comments like this are from trolls. I don't even know what this means.- Black blood is innately more respectful? Black blood only learns from black blood? Craziness.

[b]I'm a northerner and I agree it's a little 'perpetuating oppression' for me to address parents in this way (slave master, etc)[/b].

It's fine for addressing others but in a family unit, we have no need for our multiracial kids to call us sir or ma'am.[/quote]

Another inner eyeroll.  I grew up in the South, and it's respectful, that's all, not oppressive.[/quote]

Serious question. Did white kids say it to black adults? Especially in the 60s and 70s? What about now? [/quote]

As a white child in the 50s and 60s, I was taught to call everyone by Mr. or Mrs. whatever their race.  The black men who worked with my grandfather were Mr. Jones and Mr. Smith.  The black women who worked with my mother with Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Smith.  Their black children called my parent Mrs. Doe and Mr. Doe.   I think it is more a generational thing than a racial thing.

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