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Message: [QUOTE="Santa, post: 3597058, member: 11237"] That's another thing, as you grow up and mature, you realise alot of the stuff you say/did as a kid isn't right (e.g. the term gay being an insult for everything). And while most of the racial comments we said was more between friends, we know better now about how that can make others feel. E.g. The N word was popular as just general slang (we all thought we were ganster rappers lol), but we had some Sudanese friends who were really hurt by it. Even now, my daughters (10yo) best friend starting using that word regularly, until she told her firmly to stop. A memory from my childhood was when I was at the beach (would have been around 8), was just playing with some random kids when some white kid said "get away from us you black animal". It was my first time being confronted with racism, and I was more confused then hurt. I don't know if he was trying to be funny or not, but it shows how socially accepted some people thought being publicly racist was (kid had to learn something like that from somewhere). [/QUOTE]

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