Awkward situation

[myntik1]

As I stated I have a buddy who does ink.  He gave me a tatt 15 years ago using a sewing needle, and an old walkman that he rigged together.  While it wasn't professional it was light years ahead of some of the ink that guy had.  He may not have been in jail, I generalized because he had some sorry looking art.

And if he was in prison and those weren't his beliefs anymore one of my first stops would be to anyone with a tattoo gun to cover them up.  It's gotta be hard enough to find a decent gig with a record and next to impossible if you have racist ink.  I don't care what kind of work you do.  If you show up to my house to do anything and you have a swastika on your arm or an Odin SS tatt you're getting the boot. I don't care if you're there to clean my shitter.

When the day comes I'm going to explain to my son that there's a million reason to not like someone and none of them have anything to do with the color of their skin or the god they pray to.  If that's the reason you don't like someone you have issues of your own you need to  sort out.

[WunderCade]

Being a white guy...it's difficult to say how I'd instruct my child in your circumstance. But I think it would do him more good to downplay the racism in the world as minor and indicative of uneducated people,  and instead accentuate accomplishment, the good nature of most people regardless of race, and the strength that comes from individuality.

I don't know your philosophy in particular, so this is a generalized statement not necessarily applicable to you, but I know some minority parents feel that warning their child about racism and the expectation that they will be discriminated against because of their skin color somehow protects them, but I think it has the risk of instilling an inferiority complex and sets a child up in a self-fulfilling prophecy scenario. I think it's better to give the child a sense that people that are like that are small minority of uneducated individuals that you have to try to educate or ignore. I guess what I am trying to say is don't let your son internalize the venom being spewed by some idiots in the world.

[Ummon]

Really? Do tell.

When women piss you off you treat them like you would in Grand Theft Auto.

Really. That's an interesting one. Never played the game by the way.