Racism's Deep Roots: A Father's Powerful Story #shorts

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]But, there's coming a time that, you know, we we have to answer to [clears throat] the way that we treat one another and definitely how we treat him.

[00:00:11]>> How we treat him. Yeah.

[00:00:13]Yeah. Cuz you [clears throat] know and and and you know, you know, my dad is 80 years old and and you know and I I and and you know, I he he he picked cotton, you know, and he and he would tell me about the you know, the stories about him picking cotton and and you know, how you know, you you couldn't you couldn't look at the white man in the face when you talk to him. Like you had to be looking at the ground, you know, when you talk to him or you know, you you know, you had to cross over on the other side of the street, you know, when when you when you walking down the street with them or and you know, and but he he always he told me one story that really got to me, man. He told me that he told me that he had and it was a little white kid that he played with all the way up until they was 12 years old.

[00:01:02]And he said when the little white kid turned 12 years old he had to start saying yes, sir and no, sir to this 12-year-old kid that he had played with his whole life. They're the same age. And he played with this kid his whole life.

[00:01:15]>> [cough and clears throat] >> And he said that when when the when the little white kid turned 12 years old, he had to to say yes, sir and no, sir to this to this to his his friend.