Current Events > kid likely made around $1,000 selling "n-word pass"

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https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/07/racial-slurs-parenting-advice-care-and-feeding.amp

Eleven years ago, my husband and I started fostering a sister and brother,Taylor and Martin, and we adopted them a year later. Our daughter was 5, and our son was an infant, but they are now 16 and 11 and are smart, kind, and mostly well-behaved kids. My husband and I are white, and they are Black, but weve done our best to have honest, age-appropriate discussions on race, our privilege, and how messed up the systematic oppression and racism in our country is. I thought we had done an OK job until yesterday.

Taylor asked us after dinner if she could talk to us in private and showed us screenshots a friend had sent her. Apparently, Martin has been selling N-word passes to kids at his middle school for $20-50! Its been going on for weeks, and he had offered it to Taylors friends sister, who screenshot it and sent it to Taylor. They go to diverse schools for our area, but there are still a lot of white/non-Black kids there. Taylor told us that kids have been sending Martin money via Venmo, and she thinks hes made almost $1,000. My husband and I are shocked and angry, and we dont know what to do. Martins actions must have made his fellow Black classmates upset and uncomfortable, and I feel like a horrible mother and person. I thought we did a good job, but we must have done something wrong. We need to give him consequences, but I dont know how extreme to go. Right now, Im leaning toward taking away device privileges for a long, long time and confiscating the money. What else can or should we do? How do we confront him about this and apologize and tell other parents?
Mortified Mom

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That's entrepreneurship
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That kid is an absolute legend. A true entrepreneur?

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this sounds like a fake reddit post lol

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Caveat emptor.

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didnt look at the link at first and thought TC was quoting some fake ass reddit post >_>

but lmao that kid is going places

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AlisLandale posted...

that kid is going places

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you love to see it

The_Creep_2020 posted...

That kid is an absolute legend. A true entrepreneur?

Reminds me of that one story where the dad called his son "a fucking legend" after the school called him and told him the son was selling hand sanitizer squirts lmao

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Also assuming this is real lmao at the irony of her confiscating the money

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I never understood the n-word pass meme I see in a lot of zoomer circles. I would like to think it's their way of "reclaiming" the word but then you still get stories of kids on tik tok being racist pieces of shit so I don't know.

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The N word has always been theirs though.

Black folks' version doesn't carry the same "oomph" tbh.

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Woolie?

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bump

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Damn_Underscore posted...

this sounds like a fake reddit post lol

This, I thought the link was to reddit for a sec. It definitely reads like one.

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On one hand, he's enabling children to have racist habits. On the other, he's monetizing their inherent racism and exploiting racist students that have money. If he donated some to black causes, I feel like it's a wash and he has done nothing wrong, but maybe that's shortsighted of me.

I mean, even the racist kids will probably some day look back on how stupid it was to buy a pass to use a terrible word.

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I just doubt anyones this stupid. So 20 kids ran around yelling n word and showed a pass and said they bought it from one dude.

Yeah, ok. Cool story she.made up though.

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WarfireX posted...

he's enabling children to have racist habits

we're supposed to be better as parents not to teach our kids such things :(.
or become like Draje and teach kids to disrespect cops.
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