I was a minority in my school (I am white) and this was 30+ years ago. I got along with everyone just fine. Some of the girls wanted to touch my hair, but I didn't mind. To be sure, race never came up that often. The only issue I ever had was when I dated black guys - their moms weren't too happy, but they were cordial nonetheless. Tell your child to just be who s/he is - don't try to emulate the stereotypes of a particular race, but just be an honest person. I am friends with my high school classmates to this day!

My son is in 1st grade and has been the only white kid in his grade for 3 years now. The only race based thing that's ever happened was the students on day one touching his hair because they wanted to know what short blond hair felt like.

It's been a good experience for us, and my son is thriving socially and academically.

If racism has to be institutional, then minorities are the ONLY ones who can be racist. They are the only people receiving the benefits of institutional race discrimination -- i.e., affirmative action in schools and the workplace. They also have dominant social power as evidenced by the fact that no one can dare say anything bad about blacks, but blacks have a license to dis whites.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is it ok to bring up racism against blacks but not ok to bring up reverse racism??

Because black people cannot be racist against whites as a master of the historical and structural situation here. See eg Missouri, Yale and Claremont McKenna College.

You need to reeducate or rather educate yourself--start with a dictionary.

Dictionaries were invented by whites to intimidate everyone else. That's I don't even have one, bro.

My kid's MoCo public school is s 2 on the bullshit rating website, too, and most of the students are black (children of East African immigrants or Aftican American parents). My kid is always one of a couple white students in her class. She's getting a good education from gifted and dedicated teachers, and her interactions with her classmates don't seem any different than I remember my own interactions with my mostly white classmates when I was her age. Truth is, the world today and kids especially are much more enlightened about the differences among us, and bullying is on people's radar as being unacceptable, rather than just part of growing up.