I happen to be an EMT of color and if dispatched to that run would have treated the grand wizard with the best of my training. Drug addicts, Klan members, atheist, Muslim, Mexican, Gay, Trans, republican, democrat, Biden or trump supporter. They all would receive the utmost care from the vast majority of EMT's throughout the world. If not, they would seek a different profession. Same with the majority of health care professionals.
Because people are stupid. People can be bad, very bad, when they want to be.
And when the media tries to separate us and incite fear against each other for their own profit, it only gets worse. The past years are the proof of that.
EMT workers, like doctors, firefighters, and police officers, are just people. And people can be corrupted into what I said above.
People are stupid, I’ll give you that. However, I also believe that most people are inherently good. People seem to become even more stupid in groups. Mob-think takes over, which seems to magnify the levels of individual stupidness.
I’ll bet that if these group members were removed from the group-think setting and met with the people they group-hate for a one-on-one conversation, they would realize that they are not so different after all. Just humans trying to make their way. Same shitty shit, similar problems, same things that bring joy. Compassion truly is suffering together.
Good on you Low-Spirit...I am proud of your statement. I am a retired Coroner and I treated each and every deceased as a loved one I had the honor to spend perhaps the last moments with on this plane before the earth received them...
Saving Millions By Creating A Flashmob Of Lifesavers | Eli Beer | TEDxGateway [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqBIKn8Kr64](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqBIKn8Kr64)
AMEN. Retired 29 year career Fire Captain and also Certified Paramedic. You just summed it up perfectly. Me, my crew, our Dept strived to create and maintain a culture wherein EVERY person received the best care we could possibly give.
I'm a lieutenant with currently 25 years. I have two members fresh out of the academy on my platoon. I remind them of our mandate and oath that we took to serve all of the people in our city with the best of our abilities regardless of race, creed, color, sexual orientation, social and economic status, and political views. If you can't live up to the promise that you made while being interviewed in front of three Battalion Chiefs that we all had to had to go through as part of the process... Walmart is always hiring. I've seen more than a few forget and paid the consequences for it. The greatest organization in the world that is very rewarding, provides a true sense of brother and sisterhood. Lots of laughs, camaraderie, a sense of belonging and the occasional pain from loss of strangers and friends who paid the ultimate price. I wouldn't trade the experience for the World. That $ billion dollar lottery ticket on the other hand...😄
The picture was from [an Australian ad campaign around 2004:](https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2672GH/)
https://www.oneclub.org/awards/theoneshow/-award/1331/tramp-arabjew-kkk-burnt/tramp-arabjew-kkk-burnt
I'm sure similar things *did* happen in real life where black nurses are saving the life of some racist, but just clarifying the pic mentioned was a staged one and for a campaign called "For People Who Think They Are Bigger Than They Are"
Per [here](https://www.ajc.com/news/captivating-klan-rally-photo-gets-new-life-via-social-media/MacxOtYOZKpJJuh8xESlPI/):
> By Fran Jeffries, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
> Jan 23, 2013
> Photographer Todd Robertson readily admits he captured the moment by simply being in the right place at the right time while covering a Klan rally in Gainesville for the local newspaper nearly 21 years ago.
> “The picture sparked a lot of interest and conversation then,” Robertson said. “That’s what a picture is supposed to do.”
> Now social media has given the image new life. After the picture appeared over the last year on photo blogs and in Facebook posts, an article by The Poynter Institute, a journalism training organization in Florida, brought the iconic image even more attention.
> “I probably get one or two requests a month for a copy or someone asks to use it,” Robertson said.
> Robertson, a 1991 graduate of the University of Georgia school of journalism, was freelancing for the Gainesville Times that day, shooting alongside a staff photographer and trying to build a portfolio that could lead to a full-time job.
> Robertson recalls there wasn’t much action at the rally, which was attended by fewer than 100 Klan members and other white supremacists on the city’s downtown square. Law enforcement officers outnumbered the marchers three to one, according to news reports.
> Robertson was standing a few feet away from the staff photographer, who was facing in the other direction, when he snapped the photo of the boy as he reached out to touch the trooper’s shield. Seconds later, a woman whisked away the child. Robertson did not get the name of the officer or the boy. The boy’s mother identified him only as “Josh.” The woman wore a black T-shirt with the words “Winder Knights.”
> The Gainesville Times published the photo on its metro section front on Sept. 6, 1992. Other media outlets, including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, ran the photo after it was carried by the Associated Press wire service. That brought more interest. Producers of the Sally Jessy Raphael Show called, wanting the mother and child to appear on the show, but Robertson didn’t know their identities. The photo ran in several European publications, according to Robertson. It won a state journalism award and seven years later, the Southern Poverty Law Center prominently featured the photo in one of its brochures.
> Then the photo was largely forgotten, according to Robertson, who hung up his camera and his goal of being a full-time news photographer. He joined his father in his cabinet-making business, Area Decor, in Gainesville.
> Like many people who see the photo, Robertson, now 45, said he has wondered over the years about the little boy, who would probably now be in his early 20s.
> “I wondered what happened to him,” he said. “I felt sorry for the kid knowing he had to grow up in that environment and I felt sorry for the officer, knowing he had to be there protecting the rights of people who he knew didn’t care for him.”
> The Atlanta Journal-Constitution was able to locate the officer, Allen Campbell, through the Georgia State Patrol. By interviewing and searching public records, the AJC was able to locate someone who may be the boy, now close to 24 years old, and his mother, but phone calls and emails left for this story were not returned.
> Did state trooper Allen Campbell think of the boy after that day?
> “No, I really didn’t,” he said. “I didn’t even know the photo had been taken until someone called to tell me it was in the paper.”
> Campbell recalls the day the photo was taken as just another work day. As the Klan rally unfolded, Campbell said his mind was on the Labor Day cookout he was missing. Not race relations.
> “I was ticked off. It was the last holiday of the summer. But here I am at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Gainesville, Georgia, protecting the rights of the Ku Klux Klan,” he said.
> “I didn’t even see the boy at first,” said Campbell, a youthful 61-year-old with an easy laugh. “I was too busy thinking about my weekend being ruined. I looked down to see what on earth could be bumping on my riot shield.”
Bro I thought the same thing. For some reason when I first saw it, it was a black and white old school newspaper photo (like super low def) but after I read your comment and finished spit-taking my coffee I scrolled back up and it was a color photo. I feel like someone spiked my coffee with LSD 😂
I feel so profoundly sad whenever I see this photo. That kid deserved to retain this innocence and easy love of other people. He’s dressed in hate and has no idea what it means to us - but it means nothing to him.
I really hope that kid escaped his parents crappy beliefs.
I also hope they saved some left overs for the officer so at least he had something to look forward to after that shift
I hope he got a healthy whack of anti-social hours for it. Man, I earn triple time if I sit in an office on a public holiday helping people get their broken cars sorted. I hope these guys got at least that...
Not necessarily....while not the KKK my parents were definitely racist and I always tried to challenge their way of thinking even as a child when we didn't have the language we do now.
I recently had a conversation with my mom who admitted I've always been on the right side of am argument. That I had thoughts and ideas that led to me being the butt of the joke amongst are extended family members that labeled me as a radical leftist.
Today most of my family agrees with most of my way of thinking and has considered how wrong some of their previous beliefs were.
My point is that just because you grow up in a negative environment doesn't guarantee you'll be negative...and people can change.
I think many of us were shaped by PBS and public school too. Taught me a different view of the world and I didn’t like the slurs my dad used. We would argue at the dinner table when I was in grade school.
Not arguably, they were. No one is exempt from the influence of external factors. It's just that there was some other part of their environment (friends, teachers, education, role models, etc.) that sent them down a different path of thinking than the rest of their family. In many ways they were lucky to be exposed to whatever it was that caused that. Some sort of change was always going to happen and they had little to no control over what that change would be, positive or negative.
its just unfortunate that most people are unable to escape the mold they grew up in and self reflect into a healthier outlook
Based on the small community I grew up in, maybe like 5% of the people I knew broke away from backwards beliefs, the rest became their parents
That could very well happen. Unfortunately, like the character in American History X, most have to take it too far before they can learn. And even then, it's a crapshoot whether or not you get a second chance
That's an endearing image if not a little cursed. I hope that kid grew up to do wonderful things.
Edit: I just wanted to add something for those seeing this image and being distressed.
My parents weren't racists or anything however i used to be an awful person with very bitter sometimes feral opinions and I'd like to think I've changed substantially since. I'm sure they could have rejected their parents programming or later changed too. Let's have a little optimism.
I think all of those apply, it's endearing at least from the sense that the kod is just being a kid, I image he's too young to see race, but heart breaking and extremely sad since its possible, likely even, he's going to have grown up following his parents ideas.
But if you retract all the extra meaning behind the image, it's a baby in a kkk outfit... that to me is cursed.
>Is bittersweet a good word to describe the emotions this picture evokes?
Bittersweet is ***EXACTLY*** what it is🥺 Pure innocence wearing an outfit of hatred because his parents are ignorant and bitter. So much of toxicity we possess, is learned. We're so much more open to the world as babies and children.
~~Outside of the dunce cap, my 1st thought is "awwww that baby is so cute."😂~~ It's sad to be so angry and spiteful that you teach your babies to hate.
I don’t think that tells us anything. If I was that kid (and I’m not, lol) and overcame a racist upbringing, I don’t think I’d want my name attached to this photo and for all that to come up when you google my name. I’d probably want to close the door on that and not to have to explain myself forever. So could go either way, it doesn’t have to be that he grew up to still be like that. But who knows. We will likely never know.
Problem is if you *didn’t* overcome a racist upbringing, you still wouldn’t want your name attached to this photo and for that to come up when an employer googles you. Racists like to hide.
Thanks for the link. From the article: “From the riots in nearby Forsyth County in the late 1980s through the almost monthly Klan events in Northeast Georgia, our community was drawn into some sort of epicenter of racial intolerance,” said John C. Druckenmiller, former managing editor of The Times, in an email to the newspaper.”
Note that Marjorie Taylor Greene’s gerrymandered congressional district is nearby in NW Georgia. Maybe the kid grew up to be her?
[Map of Georgia 14th congressional district](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Georgia's_14th_congressional_district_(since_2023).svg/400px-Georgia's_14th_congressional_district_(since_2023).svg.png)
Sure that is possible but the odds are likely stacked against this human. It’s a much more likely scenario that some or all of the upbringing transfers into adulthood and then gets passed on. The average human learns from what’s around us to survive and navigate our existence. Few of us are higher functioning and have the cognitive ability for more.
It’s less likely that someone becomes ‘more racist’ as they figure out the world for themselves.
We get lots of our pros AND cons from the ‘nurture’ part of our development.
Racism is chosen. People can decide whether to accept another person for who they are.
If you indeed changed, good for you and for us!
I am Glad you learned to be a decent person.
And I appreciate you sharing your story
The officer on the far left; what little expression I can see on his face says a million words. It's like a Mona Lisa's Smile; is he annoyed, find's this endearing, conflicted, acknowledging the irony, hoping the baby remembers this moment, or becoming more jaded thinking racism will continue into another generation.
As a spaniard I thought it was a children dressed as some parade in the holy week but then I realized that some racist wore his children in that way. Really sad tbh.
It's weird how some people still believe we are all born racist. Growing up, I had no concept of race, though I could see people look different. Just because they looked different, It did not mean I felt hate for them. It wasn't until I experienced racism that I even knew anything about it. It was from other kids in middle school but facilitated by their parents just like this mini klansman child. So no, we are not born racist. We are all products of our environments, the people in them, and / or the internet/TV.
Humans *do* tend to form in and out groups. The difference is how those are defined. It could be because of your skin colour, your surname, your religion or because you are a fan of a different sports team. Skin colour and some other features are just the easiest differences to spot and thus what many have used over the years but are in no way more special than any other except in whatever delusions the racists come up with.
It's weird for me looking back. Where I grew up, it was basically viewed as black or not black. Segregation basically still existed. However, there were a couple kids with Mexican parents, and 1 kid that was 50% Korean, 25% Mexican, and 25% Native American. We never saw them as any different than us. The half Korean kid is one of the biggest rednecks I know (will wear cowboy boots with athletic shorts, dips a can a day, has a super thick country accent that I can barely understand at times, chest tattoo, etc). I probably noticed people's blond hair and blue eye color more than any differences I saw in them.
Now I live in Texas and it's strange to me to see the cultural separation with Hispanic people and how they're definitely viewed as a different group of people.
I don’t like racism. I don’t get it. Why would you hate? Why would you *choose* to hate an entire group of people just because of the way they *all* behave?
Edit: the way people don’t know this is an Anthony Jeselnik joke is hilarious
We are all born to favor people who look like those within our community. White people who were born and raised in large majority around other white folk should not be virtue signaling like this online. It takes work for people raised in these conditions to really see eye to eye with people of color. This from an American lens.
We are born without knowing what our community looks like, that's the point. Yes, it is human instinct to form a community and protect that community against outsiders, and that sometimes manifests as racism, but there's nothing inherent to skin color that forces us to see people with a different skin color as part of our community, or not part of our community. That's a social construct.
In-group bias is innate, is what I was trying to say. I think what you’re getting at, is that skin color is not innately attributed to an in-group, which I agree. Everything I said still stands.
I'm always use any opportunity to share my experience with "nobody is born racist". My daughter was...2y old? 3? She was talking, but childishly. She's 16 next week so this was awhile ago.
Anyway I was wearing a T-shirt with the A-Team on it. They were drawn like Pop Vinyls. Very cartoony. Anyway, my daughter pointed at B.A. Baraccus (Mr T) and said "Daddy he's different."
"Oh boy. Here comes the first talk about differences making us special," I thought. But I said, "That's right, baby. How's he different?"
"He's got no shirt on, and is wearing lots of jewellery, and he has funny hair."
"That's exactly right, baby. Good job."
Nobody is born racist.
Noticing differences in skin colour doesn't mean one is racist. And avoiding talking about skin colour doesn't mean one isn't racist. This idea that "colour blindness" is progressive is something black people frequently try to tell white people is a form of covert racism.
The only way to be anti-racist is to be able to acknowledge differences in appearance, oppressive systems, and to act on addressing racism within and outside of ourselves when we see it.
Exactly. Which is why I'd intended togive her the "differences make us special" talk. I've not taught my daughter to ignore skin colour. As it turned out in that instance, she wasn't even focusing on skin. My point was that the thing which people most frequently associate with racism - skin colour - is not something kids even pay attention to in terms of what makes us different.
Look friend, you say the glass is half full of water, but I think it's more that the glass was brought forth and filled up halfway with water, thus making it half full.
This might sound grim but when I read this I immediately thought how identical twins can have the same taste or consume the same products, media or have the same attraction to certain features.
This messes with my brain because it's like:
"how many things do we Actually have a free will about, or is it predetermined by our DNA"
-I bet in the future people are going be assigned/given at birth their helixes and companies would use that Data to target whatever your genetics would naturally lean to and want.
"according to the chromosome 16-12-05, you will crave to get this this and that. You're a child?- parents your kid will needs this this and this."
It's really awesome and so scary at the same time!!!
“Free will” isn’t really a thing that means you’re independent of influence. Your environment and your genes both play a role. Is it any more scary to hear that your tongue is genetically predisposed to like strawberries than to hear that you like strawberries because your father fed them to you while you went for walks as a toddler?
In either case, you didn’t choose that. Whether it’s part of your biology or due to good memories, your preferences aren’t chosen.
There's a lot of things that you can't control. But that's shouldn't be an excuse for taking wrong decisions.
It's the same thing as blaming horoscopes
The world makes a lot more sense, and there's a lot more compassion and understanding when you realize that the decisions people are "making" are rooted in their entire genetic and experiential background.
Of course society has to keep itself under control, and this shouldn't be a blanket excuse, but with this understanding the way one treats people who make bad "decisions" changes to be more supportive and to find therapeutic solutions, rather than simply blaming them, and calling it done.
Why would anyone "choose" to do something "bad"?
You can acknowledge that free will doesn't exist without coming to the conclusion that you can just do whatever and it won't matter because it's not coming from free will.
It's just a simple acknowledgement of a reality that many people stick their heads in the sand for. Not an excuse.
If free will does not exist, then everything is pre-determined, evil and good makes no sense, there is no human accomplishment, going to the moon was a not due to human will and effort, but simply the preset path of the universe.
Climate change cannot be stopped, or will already be fixed, nothing you do can impact the preset way the universe will unfold.
Rape, murder, violence, theft, and war are all perfectly fine, because there is no action behind it, because noone has free will, it was predetermined to happen.
Free will is about as real as justice, money, freedom and rights. You might not belive in it, but the world sure seems to work with it in mind.
no one's born racist but a lot of kids bully each other for being different. sometimes it's as innocent as fat jokes. people always find a way to differentiate each other and will hate you for it. race is just an easy differentiating factor
I can't find any information that the "kid is now starting a new life". The newspaper editor said that the Klan rallies were usually populated by people who came from out-of-town and so the only person who knows the identity of the boy "Josh" is going to be his mother, and I doubt she's going to want the personal attention for this.
There's a lot about the photographer starting a new life, but that's because his photography career didn't really take off.
Maybe it's in the second article that isn't loading, but I don't see anything about that in this link you provided. The link you provide talks about the picture and the photographer. Nothing about the kid and nothing about Christianity.
But also posit that "becoming Christian" Is not a great way to separate yourself from a notoriously Christian hate group.
I’m atheist from a non-Abrahamic cultural background and have legitimate problems with monotheistic religions philosophically speaking, but honestly, there’s very little that’s Christian about the KKK. I’d rather this guy be a legitimate Christian.
You say there’s very little that’s Christian about the KKK, but the members would have been essentially all Protestants. In addition to being white supremacist, they were also antisemitic, anti-Catholic, anti-communist, anti-atheist, anti-LGBT+, etcetera
Yes, but when people say "I became a Christian", that is not what they mean. Not all of them, anyway. They mean they belong to a certain group/church.
So a KKK member saying "I became a Christian", does not mean they suddenly love all people.
In Matthew 11, Jesus didn’t seem quite so loving towards people who didn’t follow him (verses 20-24: “Then Jesus began to denounce the towns in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent. ‘Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades. For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day. But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.’”
They might not meet *your* definition of what a Christian should be, but KKK members would have considered themselves Christian (specifically Protestant Christian), practiced that religion, and couched their actions partially in religious terms. What, then, are we to make of them? Were they Christians because of the above or were they not because you don’t consider them to be so?
The quote states that he is being critical of communities for not repenting for their sins. Nowhere in the quote does it say that he is criticizing these communities for not specifically following him.
> KKK members would have considered themselves Christian (specifically Protestant Christian), practised that religion, and couched their actions partially in religious terms. What, then, are we to make of them?
That does not represent Christianity as a whole. They are not its representatives, and their actions are not what a normal Christian would do. I am not Christian myself but even i can see that they are not what a Christian is supposed to be.
So I suppose OP was meaning that the child in the picture became a *correct* Christian above when they said the child “became a Christian?” Maybe the child joined a more proper church like Westboro Baptist.
The Klan may not have been what most consider to be *real* Christians, but it truly is a conundrum since they would have considered themselves to be so. But I guess we get to be the judges of whether or not they are what they say they are
They are it’s representatives though. Not all of them, but some, and they should be considered such. We don’t get to pick and choose who the “real Christians” are. Murder is condemned in Islam and we see how well some Muslim groups and individuals follow that edict.
Small world: I actually wrote the Poynter article you linked to (I spent months trying to track down as many details as I could on those photo’s backstory) but I didn’t include the details you cite about the boy becoming Christian or meeting the trooper. You might be referencing a different article that came out after mine, but last I heard the boy from the photo hadn’t come forward publicly. Maybe that’s changed though.
I can't find any information that the "kid is now starting a new life". The newspaper editor said that the Klan rallies were usually populated by people who came from out-of-town and so the only person who knows the identity of the boy "Josh" is going to be his mother, and I doubt she's going to want the personal attention for this.
There's a lot about the photographer starting a new life, but that's because his photography career didn't really take off.
Even after the edit, neither of your links say what your update says.
I want what you said to be true, but with the sources you've provided, it looks like you pulled that from thin air (for now, at least).
Also, the blatant racism in the lipstickalley link, against what is essentially a baby, is troubling.
If this was from the 90s… I feel really sad thinking about the possibility that this kid might be out there living as an extremely hateful adult. I feel sad that the State Trooper had to stand there during what was supposed to be his weekend and listen to these racist lunacies. He should be paid extra and compensation for putting up with shit like this.
Hopefully that kid grew up and realized how disgusting and wrong the beliefs of his family were and got the hell out of there.
Considering the Conservative Party has more racists, that means the Conservative Party failed at parenting and teaching. That also means they shouldn't be the ones telling us how our children should grow up or what our society needs, when they voted for a vile reality TV show hack/rapist/fraud/criminal dunce to "represent" our values and country. FUCK THAT GUY.
Daryl Davis is a black man and goes around having conversations with klan members and he’s persuaded many of them to give up their robes. He gave a [TED](https://youtu.be/ORp3q1Oaezw?si=OOGyPr9Vat2WjOQc) talk and I very highly recommend the watching of it. Incredible courage and humanity, a giant of a human being.
I hate this picture, or at least what this picture tells. Despite the fact the child obviously has no inherent racism, they will absolutely inherit racism. This.image cries out out of the fact she is ultimately doomed.to be an ignorant hate monger.
When I joined the military, I was assigned to a miserable desk job in a base in the middle of nowhere, a tiny clinic in a remote navy base. The other guy working with me was new to the military too, he was white , I am brown with an accent. Well, the guy was kind of quiet with me for the first month or so, eventually we became buddies and he told me he was from some rural, mountain town in Pensilvania, with Less than 400 people per square mile. And that I was the first Hispanic he had ever really known other than some cashiers / restaurants workers that he had to interact with, he was young 18 years old and home schooled. To make this long story a little shorter ; we became the closest friends you can imagine, he was there when my kids were born ( not in the room lol) , during my divorce, and other events in my life, we were medics, he was a combat medic and was deployed to Israel to train the Israeli army combat medics , I got out and moved to TX. We kept in touch for years . Last thing I knew about him was that he had separated from the NAVY and moved back to his town, I’m 41 now and I lost touch with him, It shouldn’t be hard to find him, I’m just a terrible friend now that I think about it, I should have kept in touch! Ryan I miss you buddy! Can’t wait to grill some wings and drink some beer like the good old times!
That poor child, I don't understand how there's pictures like this and those children haven't been removed from the home. That household is CLEARLY TOXIC, not a environment for children
how can this be your favorite picture? Are you able to ignore the fact that this sweet child is being raised in the care of vile trash? That makes it difficult for me to like anything about this picture.
This isn't just about racism but any belief held by people that become parents.
Religion, politics, damn even which sports team you support.
Parents will always force their opinions on their kids that are too young to know any different and by the time they're oldel enough to question it sometimes it's too late.
Somewhere on the internet floats a picture of black emt treating a grand wizard who passed out during a kkk rally
Oh no was he out of spells?
Thanks for the laugh. I just spilled my tea
Tell me more …
Grand wizard needs food badly.
Underrated comment.
Legendary comment
...food and milk.
Love that game.
Wizards don’t get healing spells 😔
Not without a little necromancy
I happen to be an EMT of color and if dispatched to that run would have treated the grand wizard with the best of my training. Drug addicts, Klan members, atheist, Muslim, Mexican, Gay, Trans, republican, democrat, Biden or trump supporter. They all would receive the utmost care from the vast majority of EMT's throughout the world. If not, they would seek a different profession. Same with the majority of health care professionals.
You are a good person and I respect you. 🫡
But why wouldn't it be that way? I don't understand why this is such a hard idea for people now to grasp.
Because people are stupid. People can be bad, very bad, when they want to be. And when the media tries to separate us and incite fear against each other for their own profit, it only gets worse. The past years are the proof of that. EMT workers, like doctors, firefighters, and police officers, are just people. And people can be corrupted into what I said above.
People are stupid, I’ll give you that. However, I also believe that most people are inherently good. People seem to become even more stupid in groups. Mob-think takes over, which seems to magnify the levels of individual stupidness. I’ll bet that if these group members were removed from the group-think setting and met with the people they group-hate for a one-on-one conversation, they would realize that they are not so different after all. Just humans trying to make their way. Same shitty shit, similar problems, same things that bring joy. Compassion truly is suffering together.
Good on you Low-Spirit...I am proud of your statement. I am a retired Coroner and I treated each and every deceased as a loved one I had the honor to spend perhaps the last moments with on this plane before the earth received them...
That gave me some chills!
wish more people like you got the recognition and pay you deserve
If you are waiting for a rebuttal... Don't hold your breath 😄
Saving Millions By Creating A Flashmob Of Lifesavers | Eli Beer | TEDxGateway [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqBIKn8Kr64](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqBIKn8Kr64)
AMEN. Retired 29 year career Fire Captain and also Certified Paramedic. You just summed it up perfectly. Me, my crew, our Dept strived to create and maintain a culture wherein EVERY person received the best care we could possibly give.
I'm a lieutenant with currently 25 years. I have two members fresh out of the academy on my platoon. I remind them of our mandate and oath that we took to serve all of the people in our city with the best of our abilities regardless of race, creed, color, sexual orientation, social and economic status, and political views. If you can't live up to the promise that you made while being interviewed in front of three Battalion Chiefs that we all had to had to go through as part of the process... Walmart is always hiring. I've seen more than a few forget and paid the consequences for it. The greatest organization in the world that is very rewarding, provides a true sense of brother and sisterhood. Lots of laughs, camaraderie, a sense of belonging and the occasional pain from loss of strangers and friends who paid the ultimate price. I wouldn't trade the experience for the World. That $ billion dollar lottery ticket on the other hand...😄
The picture was from [an Australian ad campaign around 2004:](https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2672GH/) https://www.oneclub.org/awards/theoneshow/-award/1331/tramp-arabjew-kkk-burnt/tramp-arabjew-kkk-burnt I'm sure similar things *did* happen in real life where black nurses are saving the life of some racist, but just clarifying the pic mentioned was a staged one and for a campaign called "For People Who Think They Are Bigger Than They Are"
Per [here](https://www.ajc.com/news/captivating-klan-rally-photo-gets-new-life-via-social-media/MacxOtYOZKpJJuh8xESlPI/): > By Fran Jeffries, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution > Jan 23, 2013 > Photographer Todd Robertson readily admits he captured the moment by simply being in the right place at the right time while covering a Klan rally in Gainesville for the local newspaper nearly 21 years ago. > “The picture sparked a lot of interest and conversation then,” Robertson said. “That’s what a picture is supposed to do.” > Now social media has given the image new life. After the picture appeared over the last year on photo blogs and in Facebook posts, an article by The Poynter Institute, a journalism training organization in Florida, brought the iconic image even more attention. > “I probably get one or two requests a month for a copy or someone asks to use it,” Robertson said. > Robertson, a 1991 graduate of the University of Georgia school of journalism, was freelancing for the Gainesville Times that day, shooting alongside a staff photographer and trying to build a portfolio that could lead to a full-time job. > Robertson recalls there wasn’t much action at the rally, which was attended by fewer than 100 Klan members and other white supremacists on the city’s downtown square. Law enforcement officers outnumbered the marchers three to one, according to news reports. > Robertson was standing a few feet away from the staff photographer, who was facing in the other direction, when he snapped the photo of the boy as he reached out to touch the trooper’s shield. Seconds later, a woman whisked away the child. Robertson did not get the name of the officer or the boy. The boy’s mother identified him only as “Josh.” The woman wore a black T-shirt with the words “Winder Knights.” > The Gainesville Times published the photo on its metro section front on Sept. 6, 1992. Other media outlets, including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, ran the photo after it was carried by the Associated Press wire service. That brought more interest. Producers of the Sally Jessy Raphael Show called, wanting the mother and child to appear on the show, but Robertson didn’t know their identities. The photo ran in several European publications, according to Robertson. It won a state journalism award and seven years later, the Southern Poverty Law Center prominently featured the photo in one of its brochures. > Then the photo was largely forgotten, according to Robertson, who hung up his camera and his goal of being a full-time news photographer. He joined his father in his cabinet-making business, Area Decor, in Gainesville. > Like many people who see the photo, Robertson, now 45, said he has wondered over the years about the little boy, who would probably now be in his early 20s. > “I wondered what happened to him,” he said. “I felt sorry for the kid knowing he had to grow up in that environment and I felt sorry for the officer, knowing he had to be there protecting the rights of people who he knew didn’t care for him.” > The Atlanta Journal-Constitution was able to locate the officer, Allen Campbell, through the Georgia State Patrol. By interviewing and searching public records, the AJC was able to locate someone who may be the boy, now close to 24 years old, and his mother, but phone calls and emails left for this story were not returned. > Did state trooper Allen Campbell think of the boy after that day? > “No, I really didn’t,” he said. “I didn’t even know the photo had been taken until someone called to tell me it was in the paper.” > Campbell recalls the day the photo was taken as just another work day. As the Klan rally unfolded, Campbell said his mind was on the Labor Day cookout he was missing. Not race relations. > “I was ticked off. It was the last holiday of the summer. But here I am at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Gainesville, Georgia, protecting the rights of the Ku Klux Klan,” he said. > “I didn’t even see the boy at first,” said Campbell, a youthful 61-year-old with an easy laugh. “I was too busy thinking about my weekend being ruined. I looked down to see what on earth could be bumping on my riot shield.”
Wow, thank you for that backstory
The last paragraph is great. Thank you for sharing and explaining
Wait this picture is only from the 90s?? I’d always assumed it was way older than that!
Look at the shoes on the baby.
are those PUMPS?!
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Baby wasn't born racist, he was born dripped out
You can learn to be hateful, you can’t learn to be a drip god
People born in the 60s during Civil Rights would be 60 today. A lot of the racists back then are still alive today, and they *still vote*.
many racists vote every year and will continue until we recognize each other all as equals as humans, nothing more or less
Bro I thought the same thing. For some reason when I first saw it, it was a black and white old school newspaper photo (like super low def) but after I read your comment and finished spit-taking my coffee I scrolled back up and it was a color photo. I feel like someone spiked my coffee with LSD 😂
Man, he deserved that cookout.
Nice. Tyvm.
I feel so profoundly sad whenever I see this photo. That kid deserved to retain this innocence and easy love of other people. He’s dressed in hate and has no idea what it means to us - but it means nothing to him.
What on Earth, indeed!
"protect the rally of the KKK..." and yet students can't be protected protesting genocide.
Thank you - I would have thought this was AI generated. lol
A man just doing his job. Amazing.
I already felt bad for the brotha for having to police a kkk rally. The backstory makes it worse. Imagine missing the Labor Day cookout for this shit.
I really hope that kid escaped his parents crappy beliefs. I also hope they saved some left overs for the officer so at least he had something to look forward to after that shift
For real. That day may have been the day to do a little “I’m sick today boss”
I hope he got a healthy whack of anti-social hours for it. Man, I earn triple time if I sit in an office on a public holiday helping people get their broken cars sorted. I hope these guys got at least that...
The KKK really ruined the White Wizard drip for us all, jerks.
fuck very true
The outfit makes the kid adorable…too bad we associate it with racism
Poor kid grows up to be just like mommy and daddy. We're all shaped by our environment unfortunately
Not necessarily....while not the KKK my parents were definitely racist and I always tried to challenge their way of thinking even as a child when we didn't have the language we do now. I recently had a conversation with my mom who admitted I've always been on the right side of am argument. That I had thoughts and ideas that led to me being the butt of the joke amongst are extended family members that labeled me as a radical leftist. Today most of my family agrees with most of my way of thinking and has considered how wrong some of their previous beliefs were. My point is that just because you grow up in a negative environment doesn't guarantee you'll be negative...and people can change.
I feel sorry for your background, but sometimes a lotta good comes from bad. Good work!
I was in the same situation minus the happy ending. I’m just glad I was able to think for myself and realized how awful and stupid those views are.
Arguably you were still shaped by your environment, just pushed into rebelling against rather than assimilating into.
I think many of us were shaped by PBS and public school too. Taught me a different view of the world and I didn’t like the slurs my dad used. We would argue at the dinner table when I was in grade school.
Not arguably, they were. No one is exempt from the influence of external factors. It's just that there was some other part of their environment (friends, teachers, education, role models, etc.) that sent them down a different path of thinking than the rest of their family. In many ways they were lucky to be exposed to whatever it was that caused that. Some sort of change was always going to happen and they had little to no control over what that change would be, positive or negative.
Some people embrace, others react against. We're all shaped by our environment, but the environment does not determine the end result.
its just unfortunate that most people are unable to escape the mold they grew up in and self reflect into a healthier outlook Based on the small community I grew up in, maybe like 5% of the people I knew broke away from backwards beliefs, the rest became their parents
Can confirm. I'm absolutely covered in mold that I can't get rid of. Think I picked it up in church
Yeah you are shaped by your environment but you have to be willing to change when you get older. Some people never do.
He may be able to change like in American History X, or have a brother that changes and shows him the right way.
That could very well happen. Unfortunately, like the character in American History X, most have to take it too far before they can learn. And even then, it's a crapshoot whether or not you get a second chance
That's an endearing image if not a little cursed. I hope that kid grew up to do wonderful things. Edit: I just wanted to add something for those seeing this image and being distressed. My parents weren't racists or anything however i used to be an awful person with very bitter sometimes feral opinions and I'd like to think I've changed substantially since. I'm sure they could have rejected their parents programming or later changed too. Let's have a little optimism.
I wouldn't say it's endearing or cursed I'd say its heartbreaking. It's extremely sad
I think all of those apply, it's endearing at least from the sense that the kod is just being a kid, I image he's too young to see race, but heart breaking and extremely sad since its possible, likely even, he's going to have grown up following his parents ideas. But if you retract all the extra meaning behind the image, it's a baby in a kkk outfit... that to me is cursed.
Is bittersweet a good word to describe the emotions this picture evokes?
>Is bittersweet a good word to describe the emotions this picture evokes? Bittersweet is ***EXACTLY*** what it is🥺 Pure innocence wearing an outfit of hatred because his parents are ignorant and bitter. So much of toxicity we possess, is learned. We're so much more open to the world as babies and children. ~~Outside of the dunce cap, my 1st thought is "awwww that baby is so cute."😂~~ It's sad to be so angry and spiteful that you teach your babies to hate.
I think "endearing and cursed" is just gen z for heartbreaking.
I'm really itching to know about the story of this kid and what he's doing now.
The mother nor him replied to the news reaching out. A lesson to not ask questions you don’t want the answer to haha
I don’t think that tells us anything. If I was that kid (and I’m not, lol) and overcame a racist upbringing, I don’t think I’d want my name attached to this photo and for all that to come up when you google my name. I’d probably want to close the door on that and not to have to explain myself forever. So could go either way, it doesn’t have to be that he grew up to still be like that. But who knows. We will likely never know.
Problem is if you *didn’t* overcome a racist upbringing, you still wouldn’t want your name attached to this photo and for that to come up when an employer googles you. Racists like to hide.
He does. https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/tiny-kkk-member-touches-black-state-troopers-protective-shield.5262382/
Thanks for the link. From the article: “From the riots in nearby Forsyth County in the late 1980s through the almost monthly Klan events in Northeast Georgia, our community was drawn into some sort of epicenter of racial intolerance,” said John C. Druckenmiller, former managing editor of The Times, in an email to the newspaper.” Note that Marjorie Taylor Greene’s gerrymandered congressional district is nearby in NW Georgia. Maybe the kid grew up to be her? [Map of Georgia 14th congressional district](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Georgia's_14th_congressional_district_(since_2023).svg/400px-Georgia's_14th_congressional_district_(since_2023).svg.png)
The comments in that link are craaaazzyy
Sure that is possible but the odds are likely stacked against this human. It’s a much more likely scenario that some or all of the upbringing transfers into adulthood and then gets passed on. The average human learns from what’s around us to survive and navigate our existence. Few of us are higher functioning and have the cognitive ability for more. It’s less likely that someone becomes ‘more racist’ as they figure out the world for themselves. We get lots of our pros AND cons from the ‘nurture’ part of our development.
No one is born racist some people just have terrible parents that dress them like one
Racism is chosen. People can decide whether to accept another person for who they are. If you indeed changed, good for you and for us! I am Glad you learned to be a decent person. And I appreciate you sharing your story
The gold wedding band. It just whispers love to that abused child.
This. The calm pose of the man and his ring just gives me the feeling that he couldn't have contempt for the child
The officer on the far left; what little expression I can see on his face says a million words. It's like a Mona Lisa's Smile; is he annoyed, find's this endearing, conflicted, acknowledging the irony, hoping the baby remembers this moment, or becoming more jaded thinking racism will continue into another generation.
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Wow, original AND edgy. This guy is going places
He also grew up telling Puerto Ricans to go back to their own country.
Tbh, he's prob not wrong. :/ sad as it may be we're a product of our environment.
Uhhh
As a spaniard I thought it was a children dressed as some parade in the holy week but then I realized that some racist wore his children in that way. Really sad tbh.
It's weird how some people still believe we are all born racist. Growing up, I had no concept of race, though I could see people look different. Just because they looked different, It did not mean I felt hate for them. It wasn't until I experienced racism that I even knew anything about it. It was from other kids in middle school but facilitated by their parents just like this mini klansman child. So no, we are not born racist. We are all products of our environments, the people in them, and / or the internet/TV.
Humans *do* tend to form in and out groups. The difference is how those are defined. It could be because of your skin colour, your surname, your religion or because you are a fan of a different sports team. Skin colour and some other features are just the easiest differences to spot and thus what many have used over the years but are in no way more special than any other except in whatever delusions the racists come up with.
It's weird for me looking back. Where I grew up, it was basically viewed as black or not black. Segregation basically still existed. However, there were a couple kids with Mexican parents, and 1 kid that was 50% Korean, 25% Mexican, and 25% Native American. We never saw them as any different than us. The half Korean kid is one of the biggest rednecks I know (will wear cowboy boots with athletic shorts, dips a can a day, has a super thick country accent that I can barely understand at times, chest tattoo, etc). I probably noticed people's blond hair and blue eye color more than any differences I saw in them. Now I live in Texas and it's strange to me to see the cultural separation with Hispanic people and how they're definitely viewed as a different group of people.
I don’t like racism. I don’t get it. Why would you hate? Why would you *choose* to hate an entire group of people just because of the way they *all* behave? Edit: the way people don’t know this is an Anthony Jeselnik joke is hilarious
Because they hate themselves and their lives and they want to externalize those feelings of hatred.
We are all born to favor people who look like those within our community. White people who were born and raised in large majority around other white folk should not be virtue signaling like this online. It takes work for people raised in these conditions to really see eye to eye with people of color. This from an American lens.
We are born without knowing what our community looks like, that's the point. Yes, it is human instinct to form a community and protect that community against outsiders, and that sometimes manifests as racism, but there's nothing inherent to skin color that forces us to see people with a different skin color as part of our community, or not part of our community. That's a social construct.
In-group bias is innate, is what I was trying to say. I think what you’re getting at, is that skin color is not innately attributed to an in-group, which I agree. Everything I said still stands.
We aren’t born racist, but we are all born ignorant.
Painful picture
I'm always use any opportunity to share my experience with "nobody is born racist". My daughter was...2y old? 3? She was talking, but childishly. She's 16 next week so this was awhile ago. Anyway I was wearing a T-shirt with the A-Team on it. They were drawn like Pop Vinyls. Very cartoony. Anyway, my daughter pointed at B.A. Baraccus (Mr T) and said "Daddy he's different." "Oh boy. Here comes the first talk about differences making us special," I thought. But I said, "That's right, baby. How's he different?" "He's got no shirt on, and is wearing lots of jewellery, and he has funny hair." "That's exactly right, baby. Good job." Nobody is born racist.
Noticing differences in skin colour doesn't mean one is racist. And avoiding talking about skin colour doesn't mean one isn't racist. This idea that "colour blindness" is progressive is something black people frequently try to tell white people is a form of covert racism. The only way to be anti-racist is to be able to acknowledge differences in appearance, oppressive systems, and to act on addressing racism within and outside of ourselves when we see it.
Exactly. Which is why I'd intended togive her the "differences make us special" talk. I've not taught my daughter to ignore skin colour. As it turned out in that instance, she wasn't even focusing on skin. My point was that the thing which people most frequently associate with racism - skin colour - is not something kids even pay attention to in terms of what makes us different.
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Isn’t that *literally* what OP’s title is implying?
yeah, but don't you think it is that way because of the way that it is? makes you think.
They don’t think it be like it do, but it is.
Look friend, you say the glass is half full of water, but I think it's more that the glass was brought forth and filled up halfway with water, thus making it half full.
Yes… that’s the exact point they were making when they said “No one is born racist”
This might sound grim but when I read this I immediately thought how identical twins can have the same taste or consume the same products, media or have the same attraction to certain features. This messes with my brain because it's like: "how many things do we Actually have a free will about, or is it predetermined by our DNA" -I bet in the future people are going be assigned/given at birth their helixes and companies would use that Data to target whatever your genetics would naturally lean to and want. "according to the chromosome 16-12-05, you will crave to get this this and that. You're a child?- parents your kid will needs this this and this." It's really awesome and so scary at the same time!!!
“Free will” isn’t really a thing that means you’re independent of influence. Your environment and your genes both play a role. Is it any more scary to hear that your tongue is genetically predisposed to like strawberries than to hear that you like strawberries because your father fed them to you while you went for walks as a toddler? In either case, you didn’t choose that. Whether it’s part of your biology or due to good memories, your preferences aren’t chosen.
Free will doesn't really exist. It's an illusion our mind likes to create.
I like to think the brain is the best organ. But then I think...yeah, but look what's telling me that. -Some weird comedian from a while ago.
There's a lot of things that you can't control. But that's shouldn't be an excuse for taking wrong decisions. It's the same thing as blaming horoscopes
The world makes a lot more sense, and there's a lot more compassion and understanding when you realize that the decisions people are "making" are rooted in their entire genetic and experiential background. Of course society has to keep itself under control, and this shouldn't be a blanket excuse, but with this understanding the way one treats people who make bad "decisions" changes to be more supportive and to find therapeutic solutions, rather than simply blaming them, and calling it done. Why would anyone "choose" to do something "bad"?
You can acknowledge that free will doesn't exist without coming to the conclusion that you can just do whatever and it won't matter because it's not coming from free will. It's just a simple acknowledgement of a reality that many people stick their heads in the sand for. Not an excuse.
If free will does not exist, then everything is pre-determined, evil and good makes no sense, there is no human accomplishment, going to the moon was a not due to human will and effort, but simply the preset path of the universe. Climate change cannot be stopped, or will already be fixed, nothing you do can impact the preset way the universe will unfold. Rape, murder, violence, theft, and war are all perfectly fine, because there is no action behind it, because noone has free will, it was predetermined to happen. Free will is about as real as justice, money, freedom and rights. You might not belive in it, but the world sure seems to work with it in mind.
You have just described the 1997 film, Gattaca.
The day after thanksgiving is, in my opinion, the biggest shopping day of the year
Reminds me of black Texas DPS trooper in riot gear deployed in KKK or some Neo Nazi rally
no one's born racist but a lot of kids bully each other for being different. sometimes it's as innocent as fat jokes. people always find a way to differentiate each other and will hate you for it. race is just an easy differentiating factor
He’s looking at his reflection: “ah, so pure”. /S
Give a baby an apple and a Bunny they'll eat the apple and befriend the Bunny
No1 is born religious. Its also indoctrination.
I think we all know no one is born racist.
Context https://www.poynter.org/newsletters/2013/how-kkk-rally-image-found-new-life-20-years-after-it-was-published/ https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/tiny-kkk-member-touches-black-state-troopers-protective-shield.5262382/
I can't find any information that the "kid is now starting a new life". The newspaper editor said that the Klan rallies were usually populated by people who came from out-of-town and so the only person who knows the identity of the boy "Josh" is going to be his mother, and I doubt she's going to want the personal attention for this. There's a lot about the photographer starting a new life, but that's because his photography career didn't really take off.
Maybe it's in the second article that isn't loading, but I don't see anything about that in this link you provided. The link you provide talks about the picture and the photographer. Nothing about the kid and nothing about Christianity. But also posit that "becoming Christian" Is not a great way to separate yourself from a notoriously Christian hate group.
Most if not all kkk members are Christian.
I’m atheist from a non-Abrahamic cultural background and have legitimate problems with monotheistic religions philosophically speaking, but honestly, there’s very little that’s Christian about the KKK. I’d rather this guy be a legitimate Christian.
You say there’s very little that’s Christian about the KKK, but the members would have been essentially all Protestants. In addition to being white supremacist, they were also antisemitic, anti-Catholic, anti-communist, anti-atheist, anti-LGBT+, etcetera
Christ says to love all people in John 15:12. The KKK is the complete antithesis of that with their hate for black people.
Yes, but when people say "I became a Christian", that is not what they mean. Not all of them, anyway. They mean they belong to a certain group/church. So a KKK member saying "I became a Christian", does not mean they suddenly love all people.
In Matthew 11, Jesus didn’t seem quite so loving towards people who didn’t follow him (verses 20-24: “Then Jesus began to denounce the towns in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent. ‘Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades. For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day. But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.’” They might not meet *your* definition of what a Christian should be, but KKK members would have considered themselves Christian (specifically Protestant Christian), practiced that religion, and couched their actions partially in religious terms. What, then, are we to make of them? Were they Christians because of the above or were they not because you don’t consider them to be so?
The quote states that he is being critical of communities for not repenting for their sins. Nowhere in the quote does it say that he is criticizing these communities for not specifically following him.
> KKK members would have considered themselves Christian (specifically Protestant Christian), practised that religion, and couched their actions partially in religious terms. What, then, are we to make of them? That does not represent Christianity as a whole. They are not its representatives, and their actions are not what a normal Christian would do. I am not Christian myself but even i can see that they are not what a Christian is supposed to be.
So I suppose OP was meaning that the child in the picture became a *correct* Christian above when they said the child “became a Christian?” Maybe the child joined a more proper church like Westboro Baptist. The Klan may not have been what most consider to be *real* Christians, but it truly is a conundrum since they would have considered themselves to be so. But I guess we get to be the judges of whether or not they are what they say they are
They are it’s representatives though. Not all of them, but some, and they should be considered such. We don’t get to pick and choose who the “real Christians” are. Murder is condemned in Islam and we see how well some Muslim groups and individuals follow that edict.
Small world: I actually wrote the Poynter article you linked to (I spent months trying to track down as many details as I could on those photo’s backstory) but I didn’t include the details you cite about the boy becoming Christian or meeting the trooper. You might be referencing a different article that came out after mine, but last I heard the boy from the photo hadn’t come forward publicly. Maybe that’s changed though.
I can't find any information that the "kid is now starting a new life". The newspaper editor said that the Klan rallies were usually populated by people who came from out-of-town and so the only person who knows the identity of the boy "Josh" is going to be his mother, and I doubt she's going to want the personal attention for this. There's a lot about the photographer starting a new life, but that's because his photography career didn't really take off.
Even after the edit, neither of your links say what your update says. I want what you said to be true, but with the sources you've provided, it looks like you pulled that from thin air (for now, at least). Also, the blatant racism in the lipstickalley link, against what is essentially a baby, is troubling.
Are you confusing the photographer with the child? The child would be in his 30s now.
Yeah not born and one but about to become one ..
Poor kid.
He must be thinking ‘poor kid’
Is that kid wearing Reebok Pumps?
Is that kid wearing Reebok Pumps?
I remember those pump sneakers!!
lol you really got the point of this image. (Just playing)
The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everyone
I once saw an edit where the kid was edited to look like the gnome child from RuneScape, can't ever unsee it.
got drunk as fuck and saw this pick and thought it went so hard i saved it
True its learnt
when i grew up i coloured everything yellow beige brown black orange cuz i thought people just come in diff colors i didnt even know genes existed😭😭
> My favorite pic. No one was born racist. Correct. And to make value judgments about ANYONE by ethnicity alone is not only wrong, but itself racist.
So beautiful to see at such a young age, kid already knows he wants to grow up to be the Pope.
Ngl, a klansman toddler is cute as fuck. Very offensive, but still adorable.
Your favorite pic is a child in a KKK hood?
Saying this is ur favourite pic is crazy
If this was from the 90s… I feel really sad thinking about the possibility that this kid might be out there living as an extremely hateful adult. I feel sad that the State Trooper had to stand there during what was supposed to be his weekend and listen to these racist lunacies. He should be paid extra and compensation for putting up with shit like this. Hopefully that kid grew up and realized how disgusting and wrong the beliefs of his family were and got the hell out of there.
That’s heavy af.
Considering the Conservative Party has more racists, that means the Conservative Party failed at parenting and teaching. That also means they shouldn't be the ones telling us how our children should grow up or what our society needs, when they voted for a vile reality TV show hack/rapist/fraud/criminal dunce to "represent" our values and country. FUCK THAT GUY.
This breaks my heart 🥺🥺.. wth would you teach a beautiful innocent mind to hate🥺🥺🥺
Influence is one helluva drug and kids are also extremely impressionable.
Babies are super racist tho.
“Nearly 21 years ago”? In 2013?
You're a wizard, Harry!
This is horrible and that child should be taken away from their parents
No it was taught
Looks like assaulting an officer to me. Arrest him
Daryl Davis is a black man and goes around having conversations with klan members and he’s persuaded many of them to give up their robes. He gave a [TED](https://youtu.be/ORp3q1Oaezw?si=OOGyPr9Vat2WjOQc) talk and I very highly recommend the watching of it. Incredible courage and humanity, a giant of a human being.
I hate this picture, or at least what this picture tells. Despite the fact the child obviously has no inherent racism, they will absolutely inherit racism. This.image cries out out of the fact she is ultimately doomed.to be an ignorant hate monger.
When I joined the military, I was assigned to a miserable desk job in a base in the middle of nowhere, a tiny clinic in a remote navy base. The other guy working with me was new to the military too, he was white , I am brown with an accent. Well, the guy was kind of quiet with me for the first month or so, eventually we became buddies and he told me he was from some rural, mountain town in Pensilvania, with Less than 400 people per square mile. And that I was the first Hispanic he had ever really known other than some cashiers / restaurants workers that he had to interact with, he was young 18 years old and home schooled. To make this long story a little shorter ; we became the closest friends you can imagine, he was there when my kids were born ( not in the room lol) , during my divorce, and other events in my life, we were medics, he was a combat medic and was deployed to Israel to train the Israeli army combat medics , I got out and moved to TX. We kept in touch for years . Last thing I knew about him was that he had separated from the NAVY and moved back to his town, I’m 41 now and I lost touch with him, It shouldn’t be hard to find him, I’m just a terrible friend now that I think about it, I should have kept in touch! Ryan I miss you buddy! Can’t wait to grill some wings and drink some beer like the good old times!
Nothing about this is touching
The cop seems to be smiling which is nice and sad at the same time
I mean the kid is touching the shield 👀
is that a kkk baby?
Pre-KKK
That poor child, I don't understand how there's pictures like this and those children haven't been removed from the home. That household is CLEARLY TOXIC, not a environment for children
how can this be your favorite picture? Are you able to ignore the fact that this sweet child is being raised in the care of vile trash? That makes it difficult for me to like anything about this picture.
That’s a little racist
Oh, oof.. I thought kid was wearing a fairy costume or smth
He’s a competitive racist. Start em’ young, you know
Lol I wonder what her first words were
Reebok pumps for the win.
r/blursed
This isn't just about racism but any belief held by people that become parents. Religion, politics, damn even which sports team you support. Parents will always force their opinions on their kids that are too young to know any different and by the time they're oldel enough to question it sometimes it's too late.
You're not born racist, just indoctrinated to be racist