Reply #56: Please don't misunderstand me [View All]

[Horse with no Name]

I am aware that racism continues to be a problem in this country.
I am only speaking of my experience of my kids in this particular high school and the kids they associated with.
My kids were active in quite a few activities and knew lots of kids which means lots of kids coming in and out of the house and there were kids of all colors.
The kids talked about all kinds of things--since we tend to have a political home--but I never once heard the kids discuss racism as something they endured in the school system.
In sectors of that particular county, certainly, because it does exist.
Whites are in the minority where I live.
My daughter went to college registration and stood in line for single parent assistance for daycare, mileage, and book assistance. Most of the people ahead of her were black. According to the information we were given, my daughter qualified. However, it also said that there was a limited amount of assistance.
The lady that made the decisions regarding the assistance was also black.
Every black person standing ahead of my daughter was granted full assistance. My daughter and a couple of the other white girls, however, were not.
Was this reverse racism? I think it probably was.
Would this bother you more if it was the other way around? That the white kids got all of the assistance given by a white person?
Personally, I believe that reparations should have been paid for slavery, so it doesn't get my ire up when I see things like this happen.
Our country has a long way to go to make things up to black people.
However, personally, I believe we do everyone a disservice to make a huge deal over what was probably an innocent mistake, especially when flagrant and vindictive racism does exist in many other venues. Our energies are better directed to those incidents rather than something like this. Just my opinion--FWIW.