I work with kids obviously and bluntly put some of their relatives are just straight bootleg...the kids actually hang their head in shame when one of their folks comes and pick them up...How are you gonna come pick your kid up (this is an older brother), with blue joggers almost by your knees and pink crocs showing off your crusty feet...needless to say my co-workers and I had a ball raggin on him LOL
We have nights where we get to meet the families..a potluck, why, at our last 'night', did one mother take OUR ENTIRE TRAY of chicken saying "this is for my cousin who couldn't be here, my daughter, my sister my husband" (when her husband was actually there waiting still on his first plate (LMAO); the other families were definitely perturbed at that mother.
We gave tours this past weekend and we were showing my school..it was also an open house (MIND YOU WE ARE THE ONLY MINORITIES IN A GOOD 1/2 MILE RADIUS), well we get propaganda for them about the school and their desired major,we take alot of info...and one of the kids goes by one of the dell computers and acts like she's yanking it out and tells her sister "unplug it from the back" I shoot her a look like "You are setting us back to the colonization era", and she says "Well you know us Mexicans love free S***" IN FRONT OF ALL THE TOUR GROUPS ALL OF WHOM WERE DOMINANTLY WHITE.....i seriously felt like running into the street in front of the speeding bus!
Again with our kids...Halloween is the 'holiday' I dread for various reasons (for the kids) and one of our kids confirmed my fears and left me red when someone on the street [an older Black woman] (as we trick or treated with them), asked me on the side "why do alot of minority folks let their kids dress up like hoochies? Don't they know it looks bad on us?" This little girl, 4th grader, came dressed as a 'sexy pirate' (YOU'RE IN 4th GRADE...SEXY SHOULD NOT...REPEAT NOT BE IN YOUR VOCABULARY). Showed up to our program with her skirt waaaay above knee level...if she sat wrong things would show, a low cut shirt and makeup smeared all over her face (real dark little girl with bright blue eyeshadow and LOUD red lipstick) with some humongous (sp?) open toed high heels...saying "My momma thought this was so cute..my older sister is a sexy flight attendant"
needless to say I made wear that long old jacket over that horrid costume...yes I did 'ruin' (her words) her Halloween experience...but someone's gotta act like the parent...mind you she's the daughter of the same mother who took our entire chicken tray*SMH*