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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have an AA child. This would ruin the waterpark experience for me. It just would, even though the guy is not doing anything.
Just like when I was in DC last year and there was a man holding a sign saying " God hates Fags" I was with DD and it just gives you a bad feeling....[/quote]
There are plenty of people without tattoos who are racists, they just? don't advertise it, but live their whole life along those lines (white neighborhood, white schools, white fitness clubs, basically token minorities only here and there in their life). You would never know, but openly expressing one guy will ruin the experience? [/quote]

+1.  As a mom of mixed race kids myself, I would much rather know that someone is a tool and avoid them than invest time and energy only to find out later.   [/quote]
You're the perfect example why white people should really educate themselves about race relations before having mixed race kids. You might not realize it now, but your kids will judge you for this kind of attitude (if they don't already.)

- A biracial person [/quote]

PP here, and[b] I would welcome an explanation of how this kind of attitude is problematic.  I learned this principle from my AA husband, and it made sense to me.[/b]  I also know as much about race relations as a white person can (worked at a number of community organizations in minority communities, worked abroad in minority communities, etc).

DH's view is that he would prefer to know who is open to him and who is not, so that he can more squarely address racism head on instead of trying to ferret out and dispel the biases that people don't even admit they hold.  [/quote]

Sorry, I was harsh, I thought your "would much rather know that someone is a tool" referred to the swastika tatoo. Maybe that's not what you meant.

Talk to your husband about this particular scenario. A swastika tatoo in a waterpark for children, brazenly displayed = psychological assault on POCs there. It wouldn't roll off my back the way it would for Whites. You say to "avoid" so that means leaving a line once that guy joins it? Leaving the food court once he gets in? Refusing to share a ride with him? Do you see how onerous this "avoidance" would be for POC? And what if this emboldens others and there will be 20 like him at the next park visit?

I bet all the racist "free speech" PPs would sing a different tune if the guy was, say, wearing a shirt offensive to women. How about with a print showing man dragging a woman by her hair, with the caption "Bitches are for beating and raping"? Y'all would lose it. I mean, people lose their sh!t when they see a woman breastfeeding in public, but swastikas at a children's park are OK? SMDH[/quote]

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