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In reply to the discussion: FBI: Man used racial slur before striking crying toddler on Delta flight. [View all]SheilaT
(23,156 posts)56. I don't intend to be trivializing the racial slur.
You're right, that child will probably be dealing with them the rest of his life, and I can only hope will learn how to deal with them.
But if I, a white woman, were travelling on a plane with my toddler (which I did when the boys were that age) and if they started crying, which happened more than once, I would of course do all I could to sooth my child and get him to stop crying. If the man in the next seat slapped my child, I would absolutely demand that he be arrest for battery.
Hitting a child? Someone else's child? As I said, the man should have been taken off the plane in handcuffs.
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FBI: Man used racial slur before striking crying toddler on Delta flight. [View all]
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Feb 2013
OP
What's this big shot Captain of Industry doing riding in coach, anyhow?
The Velveteen Ocelot
Feb 2013
#5
Any independent witnesses hearing the racial epithet and seeing the toddler struck in the face?
indepat
Feb 2013
#6
Isn't some other group starting a militia compound in Northern Idaho?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Feb 2013
#16
It's never fun when someone asks you to reconsider your post, but please think about it.
stevenleser
Feb 2013
#21
Thank you, it takes a lot of class to do the right thing in that situation, and you clearly have a
stevenleser
Feb 2013
#23
It is amazing how rude and stupid some people are. If I would have been sitting by him....
Logical
Feb 2013
#35
5 tkts = 5 seats = 5 carry on luggage spaces - If that happens again get their full name , let them
lunasun
Feb 2013
#52
wow. the whole world has gotta adjust to you. that is the problem. it isnt always about you. nt
seabeyond
Feb 2013
#38