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In reply to the discussion: A friend of mine saw someone using food stamps to pay for ice cream bars. [View all]KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)Mature lady on the subway heard a white child speaking a foreign language to her black nanny and took it upon herself to tell this 4 or 5 year old girl, "You are going to have to learn English to do well in THIS country."
So the girl asks her nanny in the sweetest French "pourquoi?" And it wasn't 'why do I have to speak english' but rather like 'why is this rude woman speaking to me?' The nanny who I believe was Haitian shrugged and refocused the girl so that she put her back to the woman. I stepped in between the woman and this child because I wanted to make sure she did not say anything else. It stuns me when that kind of thing happens because it would never cross my mind to think let alone say something like that -- like the girl, I just think "why?" and I have no good answer.