March 12, 2003 at 12:00 am #28914
Carmela
Participant
I think all kids may call names regardless of race, and they should not. But that doesn’t mean they have not been instructed not to do that. Would you make such a sweeping generalization if a white child had said the same thing to another white child? My son has called people names and I have corrected him for it. I think, a parent’s job is to instruct their children. A child calling names on one occassion does not mean he has bad parents, no matter what color they may be. And that was not exactly a name, it was more a use of adjective to describe the color of his body part. I am black and I don’t mind people describing my color. But the word a** should not be used by children or most adults.