‘Malice and disrespect’ - perfect. When the black kids in my junior high jeered at the way veins showed on my legs I was both humiliated and oddly shamed (and outnumbered...and afraid). I told myself I learned humility and that isn’t a bad thing but the countless similar incidents drove home the fact that I was hated for my skin color an…
‘Malice and disrespect’ - perfect. When the black kids in my junior high jeered at the way veins showed on my legs I was both humiliated and oddly shamed (and outnumbered...and afraid). I told myself I learned humility and that isn’t a bad thing but the countless similar incidents drove home the fact that I was hated for my skin color and it was bullying, plain and simple. Your uncle’s callous and deliberately hurtful words may have stemmed from his Vietnam experiences but he’s a damned adult and should have been able to act with a bit more grace. Sorry you both had to go through that.
I was a different man then. At this point in time, assholes are part of the scenery in the journey thru life and I try to not let them unduly influence my state of mind.
‘Malice and disrespect’ - perfect. When the black kids in my junior high jeered at the way veins showed on my legs I was both humiliated and oddly shamed (and outnumbered...and afraid). I told myself I learned humility and that isn’t a bad thing but the countless similar incidents drove home the fact that I was hated for my skin color and it was bullying, plain and simple. Your uncle’s callous and deliberately hurtful words may have stemmed from his Vietnam experiences but he’s a damned adult and should have been able to act with a bit more grace. Sorry you both had to go through that.
I was a different man then. At this point in time, assholes are part of the scenery in the journey thru life and I try to not let them unduly influence my state of mind.
True that.