I ran across this on a Facebook page and thought it was worth posting here as a lesson in what black adults, parents, teachers, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and older cousins should NEVER do. February 15 Stopped to get dinner for my son and the guy behind us in the drive-thru yells to my son, “Hurry up. Fucken nigger!” When I got to the window, I asked to pay for his order. I wrote this on the back of his receipt and asked the cashier to hand it to him with his food. My son asked me why I paid for his food if he was mean, I explained that being nice to nice people is easy, you have to be nice to mean people, that’s the hardest thing to do. The wrongheadedness of this critical “teaching moment” reminds me of a truism that I’ve repeated many times on my blog. No one respects ANYONE who does not respect themselves. Try to imagine someone you know–at work or socially–who is always trying to please or impress someone else who clearly does not like them. At best, you pity th