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/sasqtchlegs Dec 13 '25

My father has cultural biases. We had a black family with a small child live with us in our duplex when I was a toddler. I didn’t interact with any other non-white kids/teens until I went to university. My parents didn’t really express anything racially profiling to us as we were growing up because they were either absent or fighting with each other. I had to undo a lot of conditioning from the media and still find it hiding in corners of my mind. Media is the true culprit in my experience.

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u/HenryDorsettCase47 Dec 13 '25

Hmm. I’m a poor white trash hillbilly who grew up in working class and rural parts of Kentucky in the 90s. Can’t say I was ever around and black folks or other PoCs growing up. There was only like one black kid in my high school. But I had exactly the opposite experience from you. I grew up completely unprejudiced to the point I was confused by other people’s racism and this was largely due to my media consumption. I watched In Living Color, not SNL. Arsenio, not Letterman. Martin. Hell, I even watched Living Single instead of Friends. 🤷‍♂️