I was walking to my car today in the parking lot of Office Depot, Starbucks, Game Stop, and some other stores, when I hear this white lady saying "Excuse me, Excluse me". So, I turn around and realize she's not talking to me but to this black father and his black son. The lady looks like any other typical american woman and she was accompanied by a guy her age who I assume was her boyfriend/husband. The black guy and his kid looked just like any other father-son combination you'd see. The black guy stops with his kid and sees the lady approaching him with a hand extended with a couple rolled up bills. I couldn't see if they were 1s, 5s, 10s, 20s, you get the point. She tells him "Hey, here you go, take this". The guy, obviously confused, asks her why is she trying to give him the money and with a smile, she just responds "I just want you to have it." At that point, I got into my car because I didn't want to be the awkward bystander but I saw that the guy didn't take the money and walked away. The first thing that popped into my head was, "Did this white lady think the guy is homeless and that he needs the money and that he'd take it?" Or, was it some white lady's way of "paying forward" and being generous to one person, one day a time. Random acts of kindness are popular with unhappy middle-class Americans, so the blogs say. Or, was it her way of saying "I'm sorry for Slavery?" lawl. Whatever it was, it was a very weird situation. She didn't look wealthy at all and the Hyundai she was driving reinforced that. The black guy and his son didn't look particularly poor at all, and I saw them go into Gamestop. Anyway, the whole situation pissed me off. I'm surprised the black guy took the situation politely, refused the money, and walked away. I would have been livid. "What, cause I'm Black?" "I Look like I need your fucking money", etc. If that's not the case and it was a random act of generosity, why pick the black guy and his young son? Surely the lady would have an idea of what this would convey to the black guy.
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The fat guy and the stuffed animal... well.. it made me uncomfortable. >.<
Quite possible that it wasn't about race at all. Maybe she won some extra money (IDK, just saying) and thought the idea of a father with his son was cute and wanted to give some away. *shrug* Some people do nice things just because. It does suck that we live in a society so prone to mistrust that an act of kindness is seem as suspicious while someone beating someone up or killing someone is considered normal.
Quite possible that it wasn't about race at all. Maybe she won some extra money (IDK, just saying) and thought the idea of a father with his son was cute and wanted to give some away. *shrug* Some people do nice things just because. It does suck that we live in a society so prone to mistrust that an act of kindness is seem as suspicious while someone beating someone up or killing someone is considered normal.
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