Racist parents make their kids say the darndest things
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Wow. Not only did this make it to CollegeHumor.com, but it has been rated a “National Pick,” which presumably means a lot of people like this video.
They titled it “What? She said sparkling wiggles. What did you think she said?”
This guy should win an Anti-Racist Parent of the Year award. Not. (Hat tip to Meera.)

Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
deb wrote:
Okay. That’s just a frickin’ shame. A-flippin’-mazing! What’s also pathetic are the responses to lazyguyxlt’s response to the video. Good friggin’ grief!
Posted 05 Jun 2007 at 8:14 am ¶
Nic wrote:
That is just horrible. I truly believe that passing hate down to your children is a form of child abuse.
Hopefully the little girl won’t try out her cute little phrase around the wrong people…
Posted 05 Jun 2007 at 8:39 am ¶
LM wrote:
Has anyone been ID’d as the parents?
Posted 05 Jun 2007 at 9:06 am ¶
Jay Smooth wrote:
Yeah that had a brazillion hits and responses when it first went on youtube a while back.. amazing how many people see nothing wrong with it..
Posted 05 Jun 2007 at 11:50 am ¶
FrancesM wrote:
I wish I could say I’m horrified but I’m just sad for this little girl & her parents. And the fact that this clip is so popular proves that racism is indeed not gone.
~F
Posted 05 Jun 2007 at 1:31 pm ¶
Rachel wrote:
On lazyguyxlt’s response to the video…I can’t believe he gave out a phone number. Poor guy is probably getting so much
Posted 05 Jun 2007 at 4:25 pm ¶
Rachel wrote:
hate mail. I guess I mean hate calls.
Posted 05 Jun 2007 at 4:30 pm ¶
Rachel wrote:
In my own experience it is fairly common for whites to use the n-word.
When I was growing up, I heard it fairly frequently from classmates
Posted 05 Jun 2007 at 4:40 pm ¶
S wrote:
I feel bad for the children who will be affected by this. All it takes is one racist person and a bunch of passive “I don’t see anything wrong with it” people for this racism problem to prosper. Can’t wait til they are almost extinct.
Posted 05 Jun 2007 at 7:09 pm ¶
Karen wrote:
I agree with S…..
Posted 05 Jun 2007 at 11:12 pm ¶
Blanky wrote:
S:
Till racism is almost extinct?
Posted 06 Jun 2007 at 1:23 am ¶
Yolanda Carrington wrote:
I second what Rachel said. I heard white kids use the n-word all through my school years, and I see white folks— educated, sophisticated hipster types—utter it all the time. White folks have never stopped using the n-word. The YouTube boards alone are all the evidence you need.
And white folks still deny that racism exists? What mass delusion are they living in?
Posted 06 Jun 2007 at 7:01 am ¶
Ro-Ro wrote:
That is a shame. Crazy how they thought that was a funny enough to post for the world to see. I am sure that child will be embarrassed when she grows up and sees what her parents forced her to do. As for the parents, and American in general….400 years+ and the battle still exists. Peace and Unity people, peace and Unity!
Posted 06 Jun 2007 at 10:39 am ¶
amory wrote:
WTF.
Posted 06 Jun 2007 at 1:43 pm ¶
K wrote:
Sickening. Also sickening is the abundance of extremely racist comments on response videos like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJaQ6peXdUI&mode=related&search=
Posted 06 Jun 2007 at 4:44 pm ¶
eric daniels wrote:
So it wasn’t Hip- Hop that taught white people to say “nigger” as Don Imus asserts but something that whites created to keep Black Folks in some level of cultural inferiorty OH THE HORROR !!!!, at least she said the racist variation of the word. Black Folk need to look inside out not outside in. Some White folk want to embrace their inner racist whether it’s approving of this girl’s racial rant or famous whites like Sela Ward and Gay White Men embracing Shirley Q. Liquor’s blackface routine. Getting mad will increase your blood pressure.
Posted 06 Jun 2007 at 5:01 pm ¶
Yori Kim wrote:
That’s so disturbing, I hope those parents are ashamed of themselves. God—I just feel so bad for the kid, I really hope she won’t turn into a racist, but sadly–it looks like she may in the future—considering what her parents are teaching her. What incredibly stupid parents.
Posted 06 Jun 2007 at 6:36 pm ¶
Kevin wrote:
I think it is very disturbing that children are taught racism at a young age… however i also believe the use of this word is hard to get rid of because the black community continues to use it, N**** is a very shameful word and should not even be used by black people because it shows how slavery is still effecting their lives.
Posted 09 Jul 2007 at 2:33 pm ¶
Martin wrote:
This is so deeply unfunny I don’t know where to start. First, there’s getting the kid to say the phrase in the first place and taping it. Poor taste to be sure. Then pairing it with stuff like ‘get a job?’ Wow. Since the kid is way to young to understand the implications of it she is being manipulated to say something very adult and very ugly. Who wants to put these words in the mouth of a child? Who uses innocence like this? That people think this is something to tape and disseminate over the internet makes me cringe. Why?
Posted 11 Jul 2007 at 1:06 pm ¶
Some White Dude wrote:
What made me even angrier than the video itself were the comments on YouTube. The prevailing attitude seemed to be that if you find the sentence “Get a job, fucking nigger” offensive, you’re some kind of oversensitive pansy. WTF?! Racism plus false dichotomies equals I want to strangle someone.
Posted 08 Aug 2007 at 2:19 am ¶