After picking my son up from football practice this afternoon (he is in the 7th grade) he related a little incident to me that I thought I'd share:
Just after practice, my son and his buddy were heading into the locker room when his friend blurted out that he was getting sick of the black players on the team (about 6 out of 57 players). My son asked what he meant and the boy said, "While we were lined up for drill, one of the black kids starts to complain about how hot it is and a couple of others joined in, pissing and moaning about the heat, being tired, wanting to go inside, etc. So I said, 'I'm not tired.' One of them told me to shut up or he would jack my jaw. I just told him he was probably too tired to fight. Man, the white guys are out there too and I don't hear any of them complain about the heat."
Interesting little comment. The kid that made it is solid and a good athlete to boot. He and my son have played everything together from little league baseball to Pop Warner football to pickup hoops on the driveway.
Kids can't help but observe and notice things. I had my own eyes opened to aspects of racial differences as a white bussed into a black school in a black neighborhood. Sad fact is, if any of the coaches or administrators had heard his little frustrated aside, he would have been punnished for it and nothing done to the indolent, carping, violence-threating blacks.
Just after practice, my son and his buddy were heading into the locker room when his friend blurted out that he was getting sick of the black players on the team (about 6 out of 57 players). My son asked what he meant and the boy said, "While we were lined up for drill, one of the black kids starts to complain about how hot it is and a couple of others joined in, pissing and moaning about the heat, being tired, wanting to go inside, etc. So I said, 'I'm not tired.' One of them told me to shut up or he would jack my jaw. I just told him he was probably too tired to fight. Man, the white guys are out there too and I don't hear any of them complain about the heat."
Interesting little comment. The kid that made it is solid and a good athlete to boot. He and my son have played everything together from little league baseball to Pop Warner football to pickup hoops on the driveway.
Kids can't help but observe and notice things. I had my own eyes opened to aspects of racial differences as a white bussed into a black school in a black neighborhood. Sad fact is, if any of the coaches or administrators had heard his little frustrated aside, he would have been punnished for it and nothing done to the indolent, carping, violence-threating blacks.