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Well my little girl has finally been introduced to the wonderful world of racism.

There she is, minding her own business at the YMCA day camp last Friday, when some little white kid comes up to her, touches her arm and says "You're brown. Brown people are bad" and walks away.

Now she is refusing to return to the Y camp and in a way I can't really blame her. I've been in that position so many times in my life and I know how it feels to be arbitrarily labelled by some Aryan shitrat who thinks that God singled out the white race to sit at His right hand.

What I ended up telling her was that it was important to not let people like that control what she does in life. That not returning to the Y camp only lets that arsehole think that he successfully chased her out of "his" world.

I said it was a sad fact, but that there will always be people like that in her life and that the best way to deal with them was by being better than they at anything she did. Nothing hurts a racist's ego more than being outperformed by a so-called 'inferior'.

I don't know if it helps her, I hope it does. It has to be better advice than my crazy father gave me at that age.

I'd like some time alone with that kid's parents. Preferably without witnesses.