I've never been one to get upset over racial slurs directed at me, and that seemed to piss off my parents quite a bit. Once when I was about9 or 10, I had a friend over, and we were playing a game, and I beat her, so she called me a "stupid nigger." I just shrugged it off and kept playing, but I told my parents later (why, I don't freakin know. I wasn't even really offended), and my dad got super pissed. He made me walk with him over to her house so he could tell her to never come near me, again.
Then, when we got back home, I got yelled at for not getting upset and kicking the girl out, and I was made to read books about influential African Americans in history, as if that was going to make me want to be offended whenever someone called me a nigger. Um, okay. Didn't work. I still refuse to get offended.
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