“It’s not the existence of white male privilege that is new to me... not at all...., but rather HOW it’s been perpetuated...”

Are you my grandparents?

Richmond is AWFUL. “Twenty years behind the times and proud of it.”

If your wife is like me, we’d be done and someone and their ‘rents would be crying before you even got your car keys. ;) Been here, done this.

Nope. Some greyed responders made a point about “Actions have consequences...” Said point being made regarding sanctioned sociopaths i.e. cops murdering a Black child that handled/ pointed a “real-looking” BB gun in a park...

I spent the longest year of my life living in a suburb of Richmond, very near where this happened. Literally, the most racist place I’ve ever been and the reason I ultimately left.

They tend to go full on Limbaugh in this circumstance, and snap exasperatedly, “It was a joke. What don’t you people understand about ‘joke’? When I was a kid kids could still be kids just still kidding around because we didn’t have political correctness back then.”

We can dream anyway.....

Fuck chillin out

If that was my child on top of that, I would be beyond livid. Not at the homoerotic nature of the actions, at the sexual actions and the outright racist statements being made. The vulgar language is not something I tolerate either.

Let’s also not forget what we also have modeled here is using sex as a way impose one’s dominance over someone else.

This was my take too.

Yeah they are going to excuse this as a one-off. Even the most alarmed of parents aren’t going to connect their own behavior to what these kids did. They’re at home laughing at racist jokes about Michelle Obama and talking about murdering Muslims and deporting Hispanic people and they’re not going to see how their own…

I am torn about this shit! i mean, when I was in school. I can’t even imagine white boys treating us like that! Instead of this embarrassing video, there would be a video of a lot of white boys with black eyes and broken limbs! Smdh! What is up with the black youth these days! Teach your kids that it is ok to defend…

Don’t mess wid a Jamaican woman pickney!!

White people REFUSE to pathologize themselves. They have absolutely no problem showing us their intergenerational demonic behavior. But theywill never label themselves as such and will fight you to the death if you try to point it out to them.

Seriously, a black man can’t win, can he? Even when is is active in his kids lives he is doing it wrong. This guy raises his kids right (seriously, have you heard a peep about any of the Ball boys in any sort of trouble? have you heard a single complaint about Lonzo’s attitude?), takes care of his wife as she recovers…

I’m waiting for the “Don’t Be Violent!” contingent to come through. Hope I don’t run out of Ro-Tel dip.

The problem with most white folks is that many of them will apologize or excuse this kind of behavior. They see it as an anomaly instead of its true endemic nature. When white people decide, en masse, that they need to hold themselves to a higher standard, hopefully we will see less of this kind of behavior. There’s…

Chad here. Shit like this is one of the reasons I don’t want my elementary son playing football in our West Texas town, and also why we moved him out of private ‘Christian’ school to a public school. This is generationally wrong. These kids are wrong, their parents are wrong and their grandparents are wrong. I don’t…