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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.

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

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]

You completely missed the point. OP has biracial kids, and when the world looks at them they will see black kids. They will not benefit from her privilege in this regard. The black parent has a better understanding of how these children will need to be constantly conscious of the image they are portraying. They will have to constantly be better behaved, more polite, and more respectful than the white kids, just to attempt to avoid the stereotypes and prejudice that will come their way. [/quote]

Are you the person who posted the bolded part originally? Is that what you in fact meant? Do you think that a child calling his parents sir and ma'am will improve his lot in life in the outside world? How so? Honestly curious what the thinking is here.[/quote]

I'm the one who originally said that, and then it was attacked so I figured I'm not even going to bother. The person who just defended it captured what I was getting at.

I don't make my kids say sir or ma'am, but if we lived in the South, I would. There are kids who will occasionally address me this way, and I definitely think very highly of them when they do so.[/quote]

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