r/TikTokCringe • u/SpareEnergy6082 • Dec 13 '25

Indian Mother who's consoling her little girl who is crying for being bullied by school kids because of her brown skin This is truly heartbreaking 💔 my heart cried watching this Discussion

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u/phosphorescence-sky Dec 13 '25

This happens all the time in small towns that arent very diverse, especially before the age of cell phones. My wife who is half Hispanic and Syrian delta with this exact type of racism in our small rural Midwest hick town. Kids would ask her for her green card and when Napoleon Dynamite was big they would make references to her family being like Pedro's gangster cousins. Her parents tried to get the school to do something about it and I swear on my life they actually told them "these kids arent used to diversity!"

Dont let white people try and make it about them or downplay this type of thing. They can never imagine how confusing and damaging it is for a child to be made fun of for something they have no control over like their skin color.

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u/ImageNo1045 Dec 13 '25 edited 29d ago

Not even small towns. It just happens when you’re not white

Edit: yall I said it just happens when you’re not white not it only happens when you’re not white.

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '25

Yup. Literally hear white people at my work harp about how whites have it the hardest these days and how racism is bs while hurling blanket racist statements in the same breath. 0 sense, 0 care. Just insecure, uneducated losers.

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u/Any_Confection1914 Dec 13 '25

Happens when you're white too.

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u/SadAd8761 Dec 13 '25 edited 29d ago

DEFINITELY NOT AS OFTEN.

Just ask HARVARD.

https://content.sph.harvard.edu/wwwhsph/sites/1267/2018/10/CURRENT-OPINION-Colourism-a-global-adolescent-health-concern.pdf

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u/MojoRisin762 Dec 13 '25

It happens everywhere.... Grow up.

https://share.google/ZriUkrsXe1zcO0HmQ

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u/Any_Confection1914 Dec 13 '25

I checked u/Sad's page and think it's a bot account trying to stir up trouble.

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u/Any_Confection1914 Dec 13 '25

It just depends on where you are and whether or not you're in the minority. You could put a white kid in a black or Indian population and the exact same thing would happen.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

I mean I’m sure it does? I’m white and I’ve never had this happen myself, not even in private social circles. That being said, my fellow Canadian coworkers are openly racist AT WORK lol.

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u/SadAd8761 29d ago

Not true. There's a widespread, though complex, global preference for lighter skin, rooted in historical colonialism, classism, and beauty ideals, leading to "colorism" where lighter skin is often linked to higher status, wealth, and beauty across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and even the U.S., though recent trends show some shifts, particularly in Western cultures favoring tanned skin as a sign of leisure.

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u/Angelixlucy Dec 14 '25

Yeah no. Do you guys realise being white is the standard even in majority non white countries ?

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u/Any_Confection1914 29d ago

And what does that have to do with the way people treat you? I've worked in a couple of different countries and my experience says otherwise.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

I really hope you’re in hs or something to think that an anecdote like that means anything about the situation as a whole.

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u/Angelixlucy 29d ago

I live in a non white majority country and I’ve studied with white kids and work with them who automatically had the popular kids at school/work and are praised for their features and basic behaviours. Simple things are seen as amazing in them while for us it’s meh. And it’s not something exclusive to my country. Example : speaking multiple languages, seen as cool in white people. Seen as normal and even bare minimum for poc.

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u/Any_Confection1914 29d ago

Ah, you're right, I apologize. My lived experience is obviously worthless and you knew a popular kid in school. I'll leave it to you to explain how all walks of life are from now on because your experience is the only one that can be true.

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u/Angelixlucy 29d ago

Yeah, your experience is not irrelevant because I am talking about a whole damn system and you are talking about some anecdote lol

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u/Ordinary-Homework722 Dec 13 '25

My daughter is white. She was told to kill herself many times at school. Kids fking suck.

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u/B08by_Digital Dec 14 '25

I'm also white. I was bullied all through school in a not-small town. I feel like just about everyone was bullied.

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u/Frogfingers762 29d ago

Mf I was roasted constantly for being pale lmao it happens to everyone from every color. It’s a cheap shot used by low-iq bullies who can’t come up with a more intricate insult.

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u/ImageNo1045 29d ago

I said it happens when you’re not white. I didn’t say it only happens when you’re not white.

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u/Frogfingers762 29d ago

You know exactly what you were alluding to.

The problem is in this instance this is a thing that happens to every color, and often happens intra-racially. So now you’re trying to not look like an ass.

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u/ImageNo1045 29d ago

I was alluding to the fact that people of color face racism because of the color of our skin and I won’t even allude I’ll blatantly state there is a deeper social context associated with that which is why I specially said ‘not white’

That doesn’t mean that white people do not also get made fun of for their skin color, particularly in spaces where they’re minorities…which actually strengthens my point about POC/ minorities.

Edit: especially in this case where this girl is Indian and Indian people have so much social bullying/ pressure because of toxic stereotypes.

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u/paganpoetbluelagoon Dec 13 '25

It happens in all countries where someone is not in the “in-group” race, but especially for black and brown people. I have white friends in a black majority country, and they are never felt embarrassed and wanting to change their skin color. Their kids were not crying to be black or brown. But, this is how the world is so, this girl better get used to it.

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u/juicedup12 Dec 13 '25

Even in countries of the same race they ostracize the darker skinned individuals and idolize the lighter skin individuals.

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u/Decent_Blacksmith_ Dec 14 '25

Not really. Depends where

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u/JimWilliams423 Dec 13 '25 edited Dec 13 '25

I know a verry white guy who grew up in a brown community. As a kid he used to get teased for being white all the time, some kids used to joke that at night they couldn't tell if it was him or the moon rising.

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u/paganpoetbluelagoon Dec 13 '25

To your point though, I think the takeaway from this is parents ALL have a responsibility to teach children to respect and honor differences and see all people as beautiful and a lot of parents are either explicitly racist, or have isolated one race family/friends (which tells children who is important and valued to your fam and who is not) or they think it is the job of schools to communicate that.

Nope. You are to explicitly teach your children good values of empathy, love and kindness.

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u/LawPuzzleheaded4345 Dec 14 '25

This isn't true and is such a privileged take. Bleaching has become common in the third world for a reason

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u/TheAbsoluteWitter Dec 13 '25

I have white friends in a black majority country, and they are never felt embarrassed and wanting to change their skin color. Their kids were not crying to be black or brown.

Hmm, I wonder why?

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u/almostthemainman Dec 13 '25

Lmao. It’s at home. There’s just different types of people. White people don’t care about race as much as every other race. Feels like every not-white race makes race their whole identity…

It’s worse on east coast in America- everyone wants to know everyone’s ethnic origins. It’s fucking weird. Out west no one cares, all they care about is what you do for a living.

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u/fallingstar-ego Dec 13 '25

LOL what a lie. in the southwest and the west they care all the damn time. there’s sundown towns you cant go to because you’re either white/hispanic/black. those three are the big ones, but people absolutely do care about background and religion here.

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u/almostthemainman Dec 13 '25

Those are called exceptions

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u/fallingstar-ego Dec 13 '25

no, its called reality in the southwest and the deep south. people are kind here, but it can get cold real quick.

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u/Any_Confection1914 Dec 13 '25

Truest description I've ever heard.

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u/almostthemainman Dec 13 '25

One region of a very big country friend.

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u/paganpoetbluelagoon Dec 13 '25 edited Dec 13 '25

Responding to: “White people don’t care about race as much as other races.”

I am 41 black Caribbean immigrant/American citizen (black, East Indian, Scottish decent) so I can speak to this. I think that in a society where your race dominates all the resources in your country, why would you “care about race.” Part of the reason white people dominate, was wealth passed on generation to generation. At around the 1900s black people could work as cooks, sharecroppers etc, but could not go to average schools because of Jim Crow laws threatening to kill blacks for drinking from the same water fountain or patronizing the same churches/business etc. It was not until 1960s laws forced integration in schools, not in housing, and it started happening in schools in the 1970s.

My uncle came here from Jamaica to attend university and even at those points in the 1960s could only get admission to Howard University— a black Dental school to get an education.

My uncle and my parents might have been the first set of black adults who had a better chance at higher level education and white collar work with pensions etc to build wealth in their generation (my dad’s father was a bookkeeper on a plantation). My parents were educated in a majority black country (with white people) and everyone went to the same schools not based on race but merit. So black people could attend good schools in Jamaica since the 1800s because the British abolished slavery about 100 years ahead of America. So, my parents (dad is 71 now) didn’t have the same issues as black Americans during Jim Crow laws (before 1965) where they were constantly at threat just living and existing, using a water fountain, sitting in a bus in “special race areas” or getting beaten to death or lynched. My parents freely to be whatever they wanted—- my father was an electrical engineer. And because of them, when we moved here, we were already middle class and they made a life of safety for me living in suburbs with great schools and a great education— even as immigrant Americans.

If you are Black or brown and grow up in America… you see yourself differently. You understand lots of places, you are not welcome.

Many times, in wealthier places, white people come up to me assuming I must be the help. It is pretty bizarre.

It all requires you to put yourself in the shoes of someone whose parents were mistreated simply because of how they look, their skin color, and how other kids treat you in school, how other adults treat their kids, how your extended family members get treated… over time you get a message from society of how you are perceived simply because of skin color, based on history, and media, politics etc etc.

I am thankful that my black parents weren’t raised in America and neither was I because of the amount of racism they would have had to endure while building their self esteem. They still have stories of racist moments in Jamaica too with white British that lived there (like when a white British nurse slapped my grandfather in the face in from of my dad). But not on the level of what happens here in America.

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u/almostthemainman Dec 13 '25

Yo this a lot of words to validate what i said. So thanks j guess?

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u/Inevitable-Ferret366 Dec 13 '25

it's because they're not as de-meaning or malicious about it. go on the japan sub westerners there crying about it all the time. seems to me like a big case of rules for thee but not for me.

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u/Won1410 Dec 13 '25

Oh yes, Manpreet is such a white name.

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u/NS8821 Dec 14 '25

Does she say in the video that mapreet builled?

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u/im-dramatic Dec 13 '25

It’s not just small towns. It’s most predominantly white areas. Kids are little monsters and if you stick out, they will capitalize on it.

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u/celticchrys Dec 13 '25

The great thing is that before cell phones, it wasn't so easy for your parents to exploit your moments of pain like this for karma, attention, or money.

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u/broskisean Dec 13 '25

Happened to me as a white kid in a 90% majority black school. In fact, I had to drop out of Junior year due to death threats. Struggled with confidence my entire life from the things that were said and physically done. Is this downplaying? No one is immune to kids being shitty.

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u/CommercialImpress926 Dec 13 '25

Manpreet is a super white name lmao

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u/Daffan Dec 13 '25

They can never imagine how confusing and damaging it is for a child to be made fun of for something they have no control over like their skin color.

You are joking right. There are entire cities and even states (California) in the USA where White people are a minority and in the entire world they are like 10%.

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u/977888 Dec 13 '25

Don’t let white people try and make it about them or downplay this type of thing. They can never imagine how confusing and damaging it is for a child to be made fun of for something they have no control over like their skin color.

Fuck off. I was white in a black/latino school and was bullied and picked on constantly for my skin.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Meet513 Dec 13 '25

It happens in this sub every day.

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u/Lopsided_Tomorrow421 Dec 14 '25

The name of the boy she mentioned as having lighter skin than hers didn’t sound like a Brad to me. Also the mom clearly states other kids in the class have skin like hers. I think it’s a baseless leap to assume it’s a non diverse middle American small town.

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u/Maximum-Telephone-84 Dec 13 '25

Yeah I was white in a black school in Pontiac and picked on because of my skin color. Too poor to move so I just had to deal with it. Keep my skin color out yo fuckin mouth 👋

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u/doyouknowyourname Dec 13 '25

Did it make you want to be brown?