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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was intentional, she intentionally didn't give her a medal, but why on earth would you do that to a child and expect this child to grow the right way or so called the way you want them to grow.

I have to tell you, I'm heart broken, I'm not black but I am a father, I have children and to be very honest with you all I'm very disappointed in her parents that they allowed this person to do this to there child and get away with it.

If that little girl was my child, I would have jumped over everyone and insisted my child get a medal just like all the other children right then and there.

It is amazing to me to have hate against people without you even encountering or knowing anything about them

One would say is this Christianity, is this what our priests/pastors and churches teach us to do, to hate or to hate with no cause

People all over the world should by now learn to accept each other unconditionally without hate, now if you have a person that hurt you or your family than you have that right to feel which ever way towards that person and it doesn't mean it's right but you have that right towards that person and not the culture or race, but for this child this beautiful flower to get treated like this is really unacceptable.

james younan
623-293-6625
younan6625@gmail.com[/quote]

Here’s the thing though:  If you’re a Black parent, especially if you’re the only Black parent, “jumping all over and insisting…” not only risks getting treated as an extreme reaction by an Angry Black Man / Woman — it happens at the same time the other adults involved may be trying to dismiss what happened as an innocent oversight. You also may worry that calling out racism — even unintentional racism— may bounce back on your kid in even more painful ways then the incident that we just watched.

I personally don’t think it was consciously intentional— and in some ways, that can be worse. Even though the girl was standing directly in front of the woman with the medals, she was ignored as though she wasn’t even there. IMO, being treated as though you don’t exist can feel worse then being treated in ways that at least acknowledge your living, breathing, very visible presence.

tldr: James, you might mean well, but your disappointment in the parents is expecting her parents to be responsible for protecting their child from a situation that they didn’t create, may have no power to change in genuinely healthy ways, and which is painful for them in ways that you have no personal experience with handling. 
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