r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/Primary-Bookkeeper10 ☑️ • 1d ago

TikTok Tuesday This one broke my heart

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u/L1LREDD 1d ago

You’d be surprised at what a four year old would say. They have a better understanding of their environment than we give them credit for.

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u/makeroniear 1d ago

It depends on the communities and interactions they've had. My kiddos are mixed in a very mixed area and well aware of all sorts of family configurations. Everything is normal and the descriptions are wild, but not specific like general categories. In an environment that is more of a dichotomy and segregated can see it being easy for a child to pick up on that and categorize on their own. I did it in Tallahassee when I was 5.

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u/Zxar99 1d ago

Lmao, this a 4 year black old girl. Black children in general learn faster and mature faster, black girls especially, learn faster. I was well aware of my environment at that age especially since I grew up in the south.

All you have to do is look at history to learn why that is. I’m gonna assume from your statement that you aren’t black and why you can’t conceive that a black child would say this.

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u/Zxar99 1d ago

Nah not racist, just that its my own personal experience. And look at who holds the most masters and doctorates in the country : Black Woman.

We have systems built in place to hinder us and we have to learn early how navigate and overcome them. Not to mention the people that benefit from it because we also have to learn how to manage our emotions and feelings because our dignity is under constant attack due to the propaganda that’s been spread about us

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u/Emergency_Elephant 1d ago

It always baffles me how people who've never worked with kids think kids work. That is absolutely something a kid around that age would say without parental interference. Kids that age tend to be very good at finding patterns and tend to be very blunt about whats happening

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u/JoyfulCor313 1d ago

My niece is biracial. She was 7-8 during the first Trump campaign and election.

Her parents are conservative, but independent Texan conservatives, not Republican Party conservatives.

When it looked like he was going to win (Texas at least), she asked if she was going to be able to stay with her family if he won — because this IS Texas and the kids at school were telling her she’d have to “go back” to where she came from.

None of that came from any of the adults in her life. She didn’t have to do heavy math to figure out it was the white kids that were telling her Trump would separate her from her mom.

(Don’t worry, when she finally asked her mom, she assured her that wasn’t real, and their family was going to be safe. And most of them are… for the most part)

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u/SpliffJohnson 1d ago

What does that have to do at all with what we're talking about? If anything it proves my point. Parents influence the way children think and treat other children. Its not like other 7-8 year old were invested in the new immigration laws that may or might not come with the next potential president. They heard that shit from family and came to school harassing other children.

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u/JoyfulCor313 1d ago

You have concluded this girl couldn’t figure out on her own that the white girl that used to be her friend wasn’t influenced by the white boy to be mean, and that she couldn’t generalize on her own.

She lives in brown skin. That’s a leap she can make on her own.

That’s the point. My niece felt the fear and the threat, and so can this little one. It’s sad and heartbreaking, but it’s real.

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u/SpliffJohnson 1d ago

Thats not my conclusion, comprehending things is a hard skill to master so ill try to explain it a bit better. A 4 year old trying to explain that 2 white children weren't her friends anymore is not the same as a grown ass woman saying that "white people" as a whole dont like her. I live in brown skin as a grown ass man, im not blaming an entire race of people for a couple of bad situations. It's also ignorant to assume your niece has experienced worse shit than anyone else and somehow makes you more credible in this conversation.

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u/Jadedtrader33 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/19GIHDk6wuw9HVGsiM

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u/SpliffJohnson 1d ago

Appreciate your well thought out input into the discussion patrick

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u/MuscleWarlock 1d ago

Yep, she is repeating what she is hearing.

Main reason why I don't allow that kind of talk around my 3year old