Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is this public? How old is your daughter? Is her name attached to It? Basically if an college admission officer googled her and finds it, she is out. They won't even give her the time of day. In fact, you can let her know her social life/future work life is over if anyone sees it. I wouldn't hire her. And yes I Google to check people out. I am sorry your daughter is an awful person. I hope you get through to her about this
Omg she's not an awful person! She is a teen. They need to learn somehow.
Being a teen is breaking curfew because you didn't want to seem uncool and everyone was getting ice cream after the movie. A teen mistake is not racial slurs and black face. This girl is a terrible person. She has time to be a better person but most racist never change.
Anonymous wrote:I find the whole excusing it because she's a kid and didn't know better to be problematic. I mean, it's a reflection of your failure as a parent if your child does not understand why it's completely, utterly unacceptable to use to the N-word. Period end of story.
I can just see the "oh, no, she didn't mean...rap songs..." excuses. But no. If you haven't taught your children about the awful treatment of black people in this country for centuries -- as recently as grandma and grandpa were alive -- then you are willfully ignoring it because to admit it is to recognize it. It's easier to ignore it because you're not black or you don't have black family or children or what have you.
It must be nice to get to side step the whole race discussion white folks. I wish I didn't have to drill into my sons heads that their actions will be viewed as lethally dangerous so they can't cut up and act foolish or do dumb stuff like get drunk at someone's house party like their white friends. Because they'll be killed. And then blamed for their murder. Because hoodlum.
Anonymous wrote:There has to be just ONE troll who is trying to excuse this, right?? It is NEVER ok for a 16 year old white girl from UMC DC to use any variation of the word. This has been discussed ad nauseum in the media and popular culture for about a decade.
I would love to see the fallout of one of these brave "it's no big deal" posters walking into a room with any POC present and casually calling themselves the N word. I have a feeling the flippancy would disappear pretty quickly...
Anonymous wrote:I find the whole excusing it because she's a kid and didn't know better to be problematic. I mean, it's a reflection of your failure as a parent if your child does not understand why it's completely, utterly unacceptable to use to the N-word. Period end of story.
I can just see the "oh, no, she didn't mean...rap songs..." excuses. But no. If you haven't taught your children about the awful treatment of black people in this country for centuries -- as recently as grandma and grandpa were alive -- then you are willfully ignoring it because to admit it is to recognize it. It's easier to ignore it because you're not black or you don't have black family or children or what have you.
It must be nice to get to side step the whole race discussion white folks. I wish I didn't have to drill into my sons heads that their actions will be viewed as lethally dangerous so they can't cut up and act foolish or do dumb stuff like get drunk at someone's house party like their white friends. Because they'll be killed. And then blamed for their murder. Because hoodlum.
Anonymous wrote:https://plus.google.com/+DreadInNY/posts/dm6T2xKf5Nc
This is a brief article about the teen in Howard County MD who did something similar. Read some of the comments on the article, very disturbing. I live in the area and on our neighborhood FB page there were calls to beat the girl, drag her, really hateful stuff. A true hornet's nest and your DD needs to know that the behavior which triggers these types of responses is forbidden.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is this public? How old is your daughter? Is her name attached to It? Basically if an college admission officer googled her and finds it, she is out. They won't even give her the time of day. In fact, you can let her know her social life/future work life is over if anyone sees it. I wouldn't hire her. And yes I Google to check people out. I am sorry your daughter is an awful person. I hope you get through to her about this
Omg she's not an awful person! She is a teen. They need to learn somehow.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Show her this thread and remind tha t some words now can only be used in privacy of your own home.
Holy hell. THAT IS THE WRONG MESSAGE! She needs to understand why the n word isn't ok and to understand the implications of her behavior. Not to just hide it at home.
Anonymous wrote:Show her this thread and remind tha t some words now can only be used in privacy of your own home.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:White
Oh, then she'd be in HUGE trouble if she were my daughter. She'd have to write a multi-page paper on why it's offensive AND inappropriate, what it tells people about her by using that language about herself, etc. We would have BIG TALKS about this. And obviously phone privileges would be gone for the summer. Sometimes you have to be gangsta from home, in your bedroom, without your social media.