A lot of situations shared online quickly become about race after people share their thoughts. This is what happened with a video posted by a Black mom in Texas. She shared a video showing her son playing at the park while a White kid was being mean to him. The mom didn’t want to bring race into the conversation. She simply wrote in the caption, “What do you do when a kid is being mean to your kid at the park?” Rather than respond to this question, a lot of Black people left comments expressing their outrage at what happened. In the video, the woman’s 2-year-old son was sharing his scooter with the White boy, who looked older than him. The boy didn’t want to give the scooter back as he kept playing with it.
The video posted by the Texas mom showed how her son went up to her looking upset. He started asking her if he could play with the scooter while he pointed at the White boy. “He’s not letting you play with the bike?” she asked him and he responded yes. She was kind enough to tell her son to let the boy ride the scooter a little bit longer. After a while, she advised her son to go up to the boy and tell him that his “time is up” and that it was his turn. Unfortunately, the White boy’s response wasn’t nice. “I already told you go over there,” he said when the Black boy went up to him. During all of this, the mom remained calm as she said, “he wants his scooter back.”
The White boy then claimed that he would give him the scooter if he went near a fence. The mom was still calm as she asked him to just give the scooter back. “He’s sharing and being nice. Be nice, guys,” she said. It was only when she intervened that the boy got off the scooter and walked away. Despite his attitude, she still made sure to thank him. At the end of the video, you could see the woman’s son happily using his scooter after finally getting it back.
People Reacting to the Texas Woman’s Video
The majority of Black people who saw the video weren’t as kind as the Texas woman. While she didn’t want to make it about race, others brought it up. For example, one person wrote, “Stop teaching our kids to be nice to them when they are mean to ours.” This made a White woman try to defend the kid, saying that he might have special needs. Others quickly disagreed with her as another person said, “Special needs doesn’t mean that you’re allowed to be rude and mean. That’s the problem. There’s an excuse for every single thing smh.” One woman also didn’t like how the White boy responded to the little kid. “The hell he mean ‘I already told you’?!” she wrote.
A lot of Black people also didn’t like how the Texas mom handled the situation as they saw that she was way too kind. “Momma, imma need you to be more firm about your kid,” one woman wrote. This made another woman defend the mom and say, “she was..she didn’t let him do what he wanted, explained that her son made a kind act of sharing in the first place and the boy instantly gave it back. This went fine on her end.” The outraged comments kept coming in as one person wrote, “You’re not protecting him. Idc idc idc. He doesn’t have to let them play a little bit longer at all. He doesn’t have to share his stuff AT ALL!!!!! Don’t let them bully him.” Even though the mom handled the situation with kindness, she still faced a lot of backlash. What exactly did people expect her to do with the child?
