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Originally Posted by DrPhil
True and, as far as I am concerned, that supports the notion that what happens after this incident has the potential to harm those kids even greater than the actual incident. This is why the parents should put a lock on this situation as much as possible.
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Regarding the update of the club allowing them to swim:
Would you let your kid swim at the pool now? What would that decision be based on?
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To the bolded: I was talking about the parents too, unfortunately.
To your question, which is an interesting one, I probably would prefer that they not just because, as noted before, there were people at the pool that day who were, reportedly, making comments and taking actions based on race. As a parent, I would want to shield my children from that sort of bigotry
On the other hand, that might ensure that the incident would continue to be given "more weight than it deserves," to cite Morrison again, in terms of the impact that it would have on my children's overall development. So I would probably do what my mom did when I first went to her with my story, equip them with the tools to make sense of it (and my mama's tools were filled with sass
), and send them back out into the world.
What about you?
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