Cookiely wrote:Lindaloo wrote:Cracker Barrel has a policy addressing racism.
Second, I have never met anyone that teaches their children to be racist! BLACK OR WHITE!
This is absolutely not true. Children learn from watching their parents behavior. I have seen first hand things repeated by little children both black and white that made me want to puke. There are also subtle degrees of rascism. Take for instance my papa who I loved dearly. He was raised by his aunt and uncle who were share croppers and living with them was a former slave that had been freed as a child. My father loved this man, but he also had this attitutde that whites were "better" in some ways than blacks. It has to do with pride. When you are as low on the financial and social scale as they were, maybe it made you feel better that there was someone lower on the scale than you. My mother tempered our behavior and allowed us to realize that we didn't have to believe everything my father believed and that he was a good man to emulate and love as well as respect, but also that he was human and had flaws. This is a little off the subject but the cruelest remarks I have ever witnessed didn't have to do with anyones skin color but concerned obesity, and by so called educated intelligent people who would fight to the death for someones civil rights.
I never said it doesn't happen. I said I have never seen it.