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Just Another Racist Raising a Racist Boy
I picked up my kid from soccer practice. I used to think the ideal soccer match was two groups kicking each other in the testicles for 90 minutes then a coin flip for winner. Well then the boy decided to be a goal keeper so I flowed with it. He’s a popular kid which relates to this story.
Tonight he told me there were two groups that divided at practice. One had a few white kids( plus newer Hispanic kids) from a distant past team that were calling him over and the other had all Mexicans from his spring team. He’s been through a lot with those Mexican kids. He chose the all Mexican group who was happy to have their teammate practice with them. His Argentinian coach came over and said,”OK, only one touch, you’re Mexicans”, and to this one kid replied,”Gabe’s not a Mexican”. The coach said,” he is now”. This made my son proud enough to repeat it to me.
I didn’t set out to raise some liberal pansy boy who hates his skin color. I set out to raise a man who knows who his friends are and how to treat other people with dignity. He knew instinctively not to segregate skin color on his team because they are all in it together.
The political battle for the next few decades will be for the hearts of Hispanics. A hard working family values culture will either be enslaved by the democrat racist victim welfare trap or won by the party of opportunity in spite of whatever percentage of racists are in it. Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Reince Priebus and the Chamber of Commerce will come and go in this world. How we make other people feel will be remembered far more I suspect. Elites and politicians don’t set the tone. We as human beings do.
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Well said.
I play on a mexican soccer team as well.
It is actually interesting the way liberals in this country treat any racial pride as racism. If a mexican accepts me as a part of his group, I feel honored. If I did the same with a mexican, I would be accused of racism. It’s actually like that with just about any culture that isn’t American. We’re not allowed to accept people into our fold, we’ve always got to criticize and be ashamed of ourselves, but we’re always wanting to beg admittance into other groups.
Look at pictures from your liberal friends’ travels abroad (and they all love traveling abroad) sometime. You’ll see pictures of them being immersed in the culture, trying to pronounce foreign words, etc… but when foreigners come to America?? Whole different story.
It is the self-hatred of the left. I honestly don’t know if I blame them. I hate the left, too… just quite confusing “left” with “American.”
Good essay Doc. I played club soccer during my university days. The school sponsored a team and we played other colleges as well as local soccer clubs. There was an interesting dynamic on the team because it was largely made up of exchange students. Before the Shah fell from power we had Iranians on our team and they would only pass the ball to another Iranian, never to a Chinese student from Hong Kong or Kowloon, and never to an American student. It made matches rather interesting. We won some and lost some, but there were some matches that made us look as ineffectual as the United Nations.
The Tucson area has an interesting dynamic. There are many Hispanic owned businesses, as well as Mexican families that ranch and do business on both sides of the border. Some Hispanic families have been established in the Tucson area for well over a hundred years. They work hard, they go to Mass, and they have served in the Armed Forces and their sons and daughters still serve in the military.
It is the content of character that matters, and believe me the back seat of any police car I ever drove had persons of every race, color, or creed sitting on that plastic seat. The truth is that most people did behave themselves without my supervision and those people transcend every, race color, or creed as well.
Left wingers are racist pigs. They view every issue as oppression and practice splitting rather than inclusiveness. They are an odd lot and like to stab others while they themselves bleed proudly from their self-inflicted cuts.
There’s a lot of wisdom in your comment.
Yep.
A-BLESSED-MEN, Doc! Preach it! (‘cos you already practice/live it.).
Perfection.
As soon as the door from my waiting room is opened I have some framed black and white photos. They all have some special meaning to me.
This first one is Jackie Robinson stealing home.
This!!
The other photo of note that relates to this post are these rowdy gals showing off their ankles in front of the Cliff House circa 1904. Wild women yet still unequal in rights. This is my favorite of some 30 pictures in my office, mostly because those cankles turn me on.
Oh, a picture of a black man stealing. What message should we take from that? That home is not safe if a black man is in your neighborhood? Is that what you are trying to tell people?
Sorry about that. Every now and then I try to imagine what it is like to think like a Leftist . . . it can be kind of scary.
Looks like a bunch of racist whites beating up an unarmed black boy. Call BLM!
Haha! Laughed out loud.
1000 likes for you.
Great kid. Tell him good job from all us here at Rico crowd.
(Not that a kid cares what a 46 year old man thinks about him)
I approve of everything in this post twice over except the soccer. That I’d prefer to bury ̶6̶ 12 feet under.
Well he was the third boy who did football but after four years of it his friends talked him in to soccer. I try not to micromanage. I prefer microbrews.
What a great kid, Doc. You’re raising him right. Thank you. He’ll be us one day and I want him up front.
Nothing wrong with Fitba, as the Scots call it, a Timbers match in Portland is an event.
http://www.timbers.com/post/2013/10/27/portland-timbers-year-review-2013?autoplay=true
A guy stood before me today who coaches high school men’s volleyball. He said he had several black players who are very good. One started giving him the racial aggrievement line and he stopped him and said, don’t let anyone tell you can’t do this or be that because you are black. Unchain your image of yourself or become enslaved to what others tell you that you can be.
Shockingly, this Coach is a libertarian, coaching in high school. I say shockingly because most of the teachers I come in contact with are …a bit progressive. He said too many of the high school students he sees are already enveloped in the expectations the progressives have planned for them, racially oppressed, economically disadvantaged, and limited by a unjust social system. He said he cannot stand by and let these kids slip under that wave.
I have three sons, two different high schools.
Son #1 chose his high school mainly because they had a pretty bad football team and he figured it was his only chance to get on the field. The school was 80% Hispanic and 20% a pretty healthy mix of every other race you can think of. (his nickname was KKK)
Son #2 was much more talented in football and he chose a school in a much better neighborhood with a much better team. I’m guessing 80% white and 20% a healthy mix of every other race.
A couple of years ago on a family vacation I mentioned what a difference between the football games and school events. As parents, we had a lot more fun at the largely Hispanic school; the food was better and the people were funner – and I know I’m on thin ice here, but they were better dancers.
“Jeez, Auntie Anne. Quit being such a racist.” From a high school attending niece.
???
Thus ensued a discussion in the wee hours of what is “racist”.
According to nieces and nephews of college and high school age, making mention of someone’s race, no matter the context, is racist.
I wasn’t being racist for saying the white parents weren’t all that much fun – I was racist for saying the Hispanic parents were funner.
p.s. I find sports to be a great way for kids of all sorts of back grounds to meet and appreciate each other (or not). And the military is a great way for young men of all sorts of back grounds to meet and appreciate each other (or not).
My boys haven’t liked every single person they played rugby or football with, and they certainly don’t like everyone they are serving with.
But I assure you their reasons for liking (or not) have got nothing to do with race.
Well that group of Hispanics was more fun than that group of mostly whites. I have a party wherever I am.
What I love about this story is that it shows how different people get along without pretending they’re all identical. As Clint Eastwood has remarked to the chagrin of his hippie neighbors, there was a time when a “mick” and a “pollack” could be best of friends while teasing each other with insults and acknowledging different customs, cultural inheritances, and abilities.
Who hasn’t at some point been made an “honorary” Italian/Colombian/New Yorker/Texan/engineer/mechanic/whatever by a friend of another heritage, lifestyle, or mindset? How many shows and movies have featured the joke about characters who dance “like a white person”? Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart just made an entire movie about such differences. Sorry, hippies… you don’t get to choose who laughs at your jokes or who enjoys your songs.
We don’t have to be the same to be equals or friends. Exploring those differences helps bond us together. If we were all the same, what fresh thoughts and experiences would we have to share with each other?
Nice story. Blacks have different struggles and it’s stupid not to acknowledge that but to make that an excuse so young is a recipe for failure. There are no throw away kids so kudos to your friend for caring so much.
I have zero doubt you raised darn fine men. Our country owes you and them thanks dear.
I didn’t say they were funner than “me”; I said they were funner than everyone else. And while I’m not the best dancer, what I lack in skill I make up for in enthusiasm.
And no one is a better kitchen dancer than me. The only thing the kitchen is good for.
You’re sweet for saying so. I’m also happy to report that they’re a lot of fun. I don’t do boring.
There were two quotes from Adolf Hitler that come to mind. The first is that he considered the British as nothing more than a nation of. shopkeepers. The second was that America was a mongrel nation.
In many ways what makes us a strong nation is that people with different family histories and that come from many nations makes us stronger when united in a common purpose.
I was talking to a woman from Scotland in downtown Portland one afternoon. She was proud that she recently had become a US citizen. I told her my great grand-parents on both sides of the family left Scotland to come to the States. Her reply was very simple and straightforward, she said; They did you a great favor.
We are the only nation where it’s not a question of getting a citizenship but much much more. One can become an American.
More and more we are a mongrel nation. One day most of the country will look past race and despite what Avik says this website is the finest collection of decent minded people ever. I am unquestionably right about that. Anyone who disagrees can get a chunky swirly.