I’m sick and fucking tired of going down town or to a mall and seeing a gang of teenagers being a collective mass of douchebags. While attempting to make my way to a cross walk, one particular bitch, no more than 16, calls out to me “got a dollar for me?”
I tell I don’t and she decides to start shit. Egged on by her 6 to 8 friends, she decides to berate me and when she gets no reaction from her insults, one of her friends says to her “You hear that? Bitch just called you a nigger”
I said no such fucking thing. That l’il shit disturber threw her into a whole new rage resulting in her pushing me from behind into oncoming traffic while she screamed.
I was lucky the guy in the car slowed to make the corner, so he stopped without actually hitting me. But the bitch and her friends ran off and scattered when the guy in the car called out at them he was calling the cops on them.
I’m tired of teens thinking they can get away with anything. Teach your fucking kids some respect. —Never having kids
This article appears in Jul 1-7, 2010.
Let’s face it, some kids just need a good knuckle sandwich.
doesn’t this just make you believe more in abortion. and you should carry a nice little can of pepper spray, to spice things up, if they get too heated.
Kids think they can get away with anything these days, because they can.
Although, to be fair, a couple of years ago I was going into a large mall on the darkside. There were about 8 teens, boys and girls, obstructing the entryway, arseing around, being loud, shoving each other, oblivious to the people around them. 20 feet in front of me was a doddery old woman with a cane and I expected bad things to happen as she drew closer. As soon as she got close the crowd split, one of the boys grabbed the outside door and held it open for her and another did the same with the inner door. And they did the same for me. (I’m not that old, am I?) They got big smiles and thank you’s from the both of us.
TODAY’S YOUNG PEOPLE – 1
CRANKY OLD BASTARD – 0
Sometimes it’s cool to be wrong.
Ah the old nigger excuse to take out your frustrations on someone else. Awesome outlet. Wish we had that. (not)
I was at the age of 10 randomly assaulted by some 16 year old who came up to me and out of the blue said, I heard you call me a nigger! (of course no such thing happened I didn’t even see the guy until he was in top of me) Then proceeds to try a mug a kid who as nothing, then insists on a fight since I had nothing. Wow. Where does that shit come from? Pretty fucked up.
Recent immigrant Africans I have known are equally baffled by this behaviour. It makes no sense and is extremely self destructive.
See I hate “The Man” as much as the next revolutionary. But I don’t have to accuse people of calling me a nigger and then assaulting them to prove it. I just don’t get it. How does this further your rebel cause?
So let’s devalue the word, experiment with it, redefine it, remove its teeth, take away their excuse. (I’m sure they’ll find another)
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There, OK. All you little bastard hooligans, we are going to take your precious word away from you. Fuck you.
It’s like some kind of entitlement to injustice. It is just so fake and stupid that I really have no sensible response to it.
This is where the lack of real affection and the abundance of hate and aggression gets us. This is where it happens. How do we get through to people like that?
Must have been the same kids that wouldn’t get off the road in Sackville and I shook my head at them. One of them yelled at me stop being so f@#$ing racist. WTF???? you were walking up the middle of a busy street you dumb ass, what does that have to do with being racist?
Turn on the wipers and run them over. They are biodegradable.
old hand, that was very interesting. and you know what, blacks call it to each other all the fucking time, so how come no fights there? but yet, let a non black person just utter the word, then just about all the blacks in that area will come down on you. i agree 1000 percent, that it is a stupid word, just like intelligence, and smart, can be in some cases. but if you want to start race riots, fuck me, there are other ways to do it.i mean really people, black, white, blue green and fucking orange dotted. use what little shit you have in your heads and get a life, not a race war due to some fucking stupid word. sticks and stones people, learn it and fucking live it. do i get offended or all bent out of shape if someone calls me a cracker, honkie, or any other such shit, no, i just laugh at your stupidity and continue on my way. but if you lay hands on me, then get ready for a free ride to the nearest e.r.. because some days, i might be pissed enough to really fuck you up.
I like kids on an individual basis, but when I see large gaggles of them, I cross the street. Where adults are concerned, the gaggles usually have to be alot bigger for them to behave the same way- as in the anarchist protesters, or sports fanatics when their team is losing. I stay away from them too. Idiots!
Life Sucks, where blacks calling eachother “niggers” is concerned, here is an analogy for you: Imagine someone came up to you and your friend and called you “inbreds.” You’d probably be offended, but then later you and your friend might jokingly refer to eachother as “inbreds,” which sort of takes the ugly power away from the word by giving you a laugh. I know my dad used to call me and my sister names, and later on, my sister and I would use the names on eachother…sometimes even in front of him, as a joke.
The OP could take solace in knowing that the kid obviously is a little nigger. If you make shit up and push people into traffic then you are a nigger whether you’re black, white, red or yellow.
I don’t like the idea that a group of people who created a racist slur (no, not YOU specifically, white guy/gal, but people who look like you) and who have historically used it to belittle another group can just toss it around casually, even in a well-intentioned attempt to disarm it. Let’s just leave that one alone….
When a group, any group, has been historically oppressed and subjected to systematic prejudice and hatred of the most violent kind, this has a tendency to mess you up.
And then there are the economic, political, etc. disadvantages racist oppression has created over time. Some people come out okay, they don’t take this stuff on and they lead healthy lives in spite of racism. Others just don’t.
I used to be really involved with queer organizations (and I use this word because I identify as queer) but I stopped because so many of the people I met had taken on the homophobic crap they were taught growing up and which still exists today. The bad behaviour I saw was too general a trend to be explained in any other way, IMO. That said, I dropped out years ago and things may have changed with the next generation.
OP, what that person did, that’s just plain wrong but there’s a context here. Not an excuse but maybe (part of) an explanation, if that matters to you.
“When a group, any group, has been historically oppressed and subjected to systematic prejudice and hatred of the most violent kind, this has a tendency to mess you up.
And then there are the economic, political, etc. disadvantages racist oppression has created over time. Some people come out okay, they don’t take this stuff on and they lead healthy lives in spite of racism. Others just don’t. “
I think I know why that kid pushed someone into traffic. Shitty parenting, fetal alcohol syndrome, cocaine withdrawal and just being a general skidmark on society for the “fun” of it. I don’t give a shit if someone else called them a name last week, or their parents were unfairly turned down for a job. Doesn’t give you any right or justification to be this inhumane to innocent people.
Last year when I was on the bus two young ‘ladies’ sat behind me. They were the most obnoxious kids I have ever heard. All they did was talk about being in and out of juvie, how horny they were, and the drugs they were thinking of. The one behind me kept saying she was so pissed she just wanted to ‘slice someone’s throat and them take them out the world’. Direct quote there: out the world. She went on to say she didn’t care who it was she just wanted to do it. So very obnoxious.
I’m sitting there thinking if I move that will just agitate them move. So I stay put. Keeping my eye on them of course because that story about the guy getting killed on the bus a few years ago kept running through my head….They were probably just trying to get attention and seem bad assed but who knows these days. It could happen.
This all happened on a weekday afternoon.
When I was a kid I would never think of being so obnoxious in public. I had the ‘fear of my father’ in me i.e. he’d crack my ass if I was so rude and send me off to military school.
I’m not sure what the answer is for the kids these days but someone has to teach them not just respect for others but basic respect for themselves. Who said going in and out of juvie should be bragging rights? All I could think is that those kids were losers with a capital “L”.
Has anyone ever seen that threesome that hangs out on SGR and thinks they’re the shit just because they run up and down the street with signs like “karma 25 cents” or “at least I’m not mugging you”…FUCK the girl in the Triumvirate of Awesomeness is the smuggest piece of teenage shit I’ve ever seen in my entire life.
I blame all this shit on the “entitlement” culture kids are growing up in these days – when I was a kid, we got medals and certificates for winning, not just because we participated. Kids also failed grades when they couldn’t grasp the curriculum and got punished when they did something wrong. These days? Kids who misbehave are given a prescription for adderall rather than being punished. Funny how, since 1994 prescriptions for these types of drugs have tripled, isn’t it? *sigh*
Z — I agree with you in regards to kids in packs. Kids, especially tweens/young teens are the WORST when they congregate in packs. I’m an only child and the ONLY time I ever got in trouble (I only remember misbehaving as a kid a few times — mainly because I didn’t really have a desire to have my parents pissed off at me and because I knew I’d get punished too — not hit, more like my mom would take all my good shit away and I’d have to basically sit in my room with nothing to do and when you have the attention span of a flea, it drives you insane) was when I was with other kids. I think it’s because it doesn’t seem as bad when you get in trouble with others. Though, my parents would always come down harder on me than the other kids. Probably because they were more disappointed by my behaviour than anything. Like I said, I was a good kid and my parents still point that out when they talk about me to their friends, BUT I was a good kid because I had good parents who taught me manners and respect and right from wrong. Parents are either too lazy, think their children are perfect, or are just too scared to come down hard on their kids because you can’t look at a kid sideways without CFS banging down your door these days.
I know exactly the little wasters you are talking about PK. If ever a kid deserved to end up on a milk carton…
When I was much younger, my dad said to me he would hang me up-side-down from the balcony naked during winter time if I ever was a bad kid. He also threatened me that he would kill me if I ever was a very bad kid. I said he couldn’t, and he said “you are my kid. I will do anything I want with you.” He never raised his voice, never raised a hand on anyone, and never had to follow through on the threats he made. But somehow, the calm and nonchalant way he declared his ultimate authority over his kids, I believed he would do what it took to teach us a lesson if he had to.
Many of my friends recall either a story like mine or something along the lines of “if I ever misbehaved, I’d get that ‘look’ from mom that would turn you into a stone” or “if I was being inappropriate at a gathering, I would get a kick under the table” or my personal favourite, “mom would ask me if I’d want to go to the washroom when I misbehaved in public; I knew what would happen in the washroom, so I’d say no.”
They sound like typical trailer white/black welfare trash. Don’t worry, they are 16 now, which means they are likely pregnant with their cousin’s child. Or maybe it’s their pimp’s child.
Marry Me Ivan!
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Oooh Black Rose (Bam-Ba-Lam)for that to happen I would have to convert to some religion that allows polygamy, AND caffeinated beverages, AND the flesh of the swine AND the fermentations of wheat and the grape. While I may sin in my mind rather a lot; my heart belongs to Sonovabitchova.
My juvenile attempts at wit, however, belong to the world >; )
>sigh< well, my heart is broken forever... I will now write a bitch that gets LS and TTFN all hot an bothered... over my bad emo-esque poetry... and you shall be to blame!
Anything but that! Russians have enough to answer for. We gave the world Stalin, Chernobyl ,Vodka, the world’s most addictive assault rifle , Yakov Smirnov and Scoialist Realism (really, how many poems about steel plants do you have to read before they start to sound the same)
Is your Master Seaman still around, rocking out to Thorogood?
He’s around… rocking out with other chicks now I guess. Oh, and Yakov Smirnov is one thing I will never forgive Russia for!
…nor will any of us Tovaritsch. A sad and toxic legacy.
breedingdissent: That is one of the biggest piles of bullshit I have ever seen outside of a farm. The fact that you “identify” yourself as a minority that has historically suffered oppression and inequality speaks volumes about your justification of this attack. Yes, blacks were slaves. Yes, they have been oppressed during mankinds more recent history. And yes, they still are in some places today. But the fact of the matter is this: everyone is responsible for their own actions. The OP did NOTHING wrong here and was almost killed in the process. You are attempting to justify the actions of these little bastards and it quite frankly makes me sick. I bet if there was a case where a guy beat the shit out of a homosexual because he had been inappropriately touched by his gay uncle as a teenager, you wouldn’t be defending his actions. Past issues are NO EXCUSE for current actions.
LS: I was on the bus heading downtown a few years ago when two young black guys (early 20s I’d say) got on the bus at the corner of Bayers Rd and Oxford. They were loud, obnoxious and pretty crass. As they continued their little session of mouthing off, I looked over at them and one of them said “What the fuck you lookin’ at cracker?”, to which I simply replied “You, nigger”. This isn’t a term I would normally use, but if you’re going to throw racial insults at me, I’ll do the same. Needless to say he got all fired up and jumped out of his seat and starting heading towards me. There was on older (mid 60s) black woman on the bus as well and she stood up in front of him before he got to my seat. I thought I was going to have her to deal with too when she said to him “Boy, sit your ass back down in that seat and shut your mouth”. He looked at her and said “But that cracker just called me a nigger!”. Her response is something I’ll never forget “That’s true, but you called him a cracker first. You opened the door to be called a nigger and you’re acting like one right now. So sit down and shut up before I sit you down and shut you up”. She and I ended up getting off at the same stop and I told her that I was sorry if I had offended her, but I also explained that I wasn’t going to be called something like that without returning equal fire. She said that she wasn’t at all offended and that she thought I was not necessarily right in using the word, but that I was justified. I’ve never used the word since and I hope I don’t have to ever again, but I think my story shows that not all blacks are offended by the word. Some just let it slide off their backs, laugh at the person who used it and walk away.
Belated applause for the actions of the amazing lady on the Bayer’s/Oxford bus!!! Kudos to NW for being assertive in the face of adversity. I don’t have a racist bone in my body but I have zero tolerance of asshattery no matter the colour of the asshat’s outer dermis.
Roger that, Oceanlady. It’s a veritable Rainbow Coalition of Jackassitude out there. No more free passes, no more excuses. For anyone.
No, NW, not justify, not excuse. Instead, I wrote: “OP, what that person did, that’s just plain wrong but there’s a context here. Not an excuse but maybe (part of) an explanation, if that matters to you.”
You can choose to misinterpret this theory of mine if you wish. That’s up to you.
Stop making excuses for psychopaths and violent criminals. If someone was called a nigger as a kid they have no reason to take out their anger on a random white person. Guess what? They are now officially racist and committing a hate crime. That boy is no better than a nazi skinhead.
Why, SP, because you say so? Because you, coming from a different background, can’t possibly relate? Your obvious lack of understanding about the history of racism does nothing to strengthen your argument. I would encourage you to learn a little more about this subject before you spout off.
And why should attempting to understand why something is happening be dismissed as an attempt to excuse bad behaviour? Bad behaviour is bad. No sh*t. If we don’t attempt to learn from a problem we can’t do a damn thing to change it. And calling people names dehumanizes them. It contributes to the problem.