29 December 2025, 08:04

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Let your kid hang out with the black kids

Let your kid hang out with the black kids

of Anthis Hermogenous

He tried to make his children "opposite", with critical thinking. We agreed that children's perceptions are acquired. We agreed how heavy it is to rid them of Aryan conceits.

A few years ago, when Veronica was six, we took her to Paris. In multicultural Paris. With the blacks, the whites, the weird artists, the women who shave their heads. A child that we raised meticulously with many manners so that he would turn out to be a human being. By slicing and slicing the hierarchy of people from her mind, we were daily de-boning whatever racist recruits she absorbed from elsewhere.

So in Paris, in the metro, there was a black man standing. The little girl asked me if she understood Greek and I told her no. He unfolded and timidly said "I'm a little afraid of him." I felt like he spat in my glass.

Children are unlettered. A child who runs with her gymnast mother in the Paralympics, chooses black dolls, watches videos of amputee athletes putting on a prosthetic leg, where on earth did she find fear of another skin color? She told me about someone telling her that black people stink and kill.

I approach her childishly. How they also look at her strangely because she is white and wonder if she bleached her hair. And how our constitution is affected by geographical conditions. Then we had to talk in human terms. We had to state the obvious.

As we were leaving, the black gentleman smiled at her and asked her, in English, what her name was. The little girl turned to me to get a nod if it's okay to answer him. She called him "Veronica" even making an accent and cuteness. Then he asked, "You?"

It opened a few days after her school. She runs to tell me, as if she was looking to see my pride, that a girl came to her school, a little black who is Indian. She doesn't know a word of Greek and the kids don't play with her at recess because they don't get along. "But I play, I don't go to play with the others, she can't sit alone on the bench, she'll never learn Greek like that." "And how do you speak?" "With meanings, we get along." Today, this little one is the best in the class. Today, he explains to Veronica the general decline.

You shape the children. Children do not have a negative impact on children because they are dark. How can children sour you because they are refugees, orphans, unaccompanied? How can you be filled with nonsense that children can do social harm to children? Children have no ethnic flaws. Adults have blemishes. Such a question is answered.

Today every half-educated, every phobic out of touch with society, wants her child to change schools, because the school in her area has many foreigners.

Now sit down as an adult with social indolence, let me tell you about research. Your pamphlets of inequality are only about material vassals. If the Indian is the son of the investor, you are not afraid. The social corvan of your mind is bullshit and a half. Silent phobias with false dubbing. Say the name normally. It's racism.

Yes, man selects groups with common characteristics. However, in-group bias does not exclude your different from the rest of the environment. And if you are exposed to the other stimulus, it becomes familiar and attractive. If you want science, google mere-exposure effect. Leave us with your phenomenological ramblings.

Research what children are shaped by racist discourse. With what stilted slurs you twist human instincts. What leeway do you leave them for free-thinking relationships.

And if you don't have racist antidotes to offer, moko. Because if there is anything to be researched, it is the effects of having children with you.

* Editor-in-Chief

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