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I know where you're coming from

Submitted by krcoffm on Fri, 10/06/2006 - 10:43am.

I live in South Texas, only a couple of hours north of Mexico and I am white and have 3 white kids. I have lived in a lot of places, and I was always in the majority until moving here. Here, my kids are both one of 2 white kids in their classes. I am one of the few white people at work, under a management team that is completely hispanic. Having said that, I think the issue here is teasing in general, and I don't think you should focus on the race issue. You don't want to make an issue of this for your daughter. Maybe those kids were teasing because they were teased and their parents were like well that's white people. If you do make an issue of the race teasing, it will seem like it's us vs. them and will always be in her mind. I wonder how other minority parents deal with teasing based on race. I think the best way in the long run to deal with this kind of teasing is to blow it off so your daughter won't be intimidated every time she's in the minority. Just exlain that they were just teasing and we're all people and we're all not that different. We need to try to end racism with our kids, and this is a perfect opportunity.

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