In most families, during the course of growing up you are told the stories of things that you said of did as a young child that you do not really remember doing. Apparently, while on a family vacation through Florida we stopped at this information center in the Everglades. For some reason that had an artificial display of animals and the one display was a gorilla. According to both of my parents (I asked my mother separate of being told this by my dad) I turned to a black man looking at the same display as me and said, "Hey, he kinda looks like you." I was only 4 or 5 at the time.

i don't get it

i was a young racist

yeah, i know. how racist are you now?

pretty indifferent.

but you wouldn't compare, to his face, a black man to a gorilla nowadays?

only if i wanted to get killed or receive a severe beating, but why would i want that, yanno?

that was my next question. would you only abstain from doing so out of concern for your own physical well-being, or because you consider it racist and in poor from?

When I was a kid, my dad and uncle used to play a football board game called Paydirt. I was just a kid, and didn't know how to play, but I'd always asked my dad if I could roll the dice now and then. According to him and my uncle, right before I would roll the dice, I would say "Shit Poo Poo!" right before I rolled them.

To this day my uncle's nickname for me is Poo.

physical well-being. Comparing someone to what animal they look like is not race related to me. I call a kid at work "spider monkey" because he in reminded me of a spider monkey and this kid is just an italian kid like me. Though, over the course of time comparing a black man to a gorilla has gained racist meaning.

George Bush doesn't care about black people...

when i was 2 i fell into water, my uncle dove in and saved my life... oh boy i was naive then

so maybe not racist in your opinion, but certainly poor form.

how were you naive?

My wife's mother tells a story about taking her to a department store when she was 2 or 3 and getting on an elevator with a large black man and my wife said, "Mommy look! A BEAR!!!"

precisely

so you'r not a racist, just a social retard.

perhaps as a child

my grandmother had over her church friends, one who was the pastor of the church. they were playing bridge or something.


i told two jokes


whys a fire engine red? if someone was pulling your hose all day, youd be red too

whys a pool table green? someone was racking your balls all day, youd be green too

i almost gave gram a heart attack when i was 6 years old

i don't remember i was 2