So.. Sunday afternoon my child and I were outside.. while I was playing with her, two teenaged boys were riding on their bikes. 

They got my attention because one of the boys called out to the other and said "(boy's name) there's no exit that way" and the other boy kept riding ahead... About 45 seconds later the previous boy called out to him again.. but this time instead of calling his "friend" out by name he said "YOU STUPID N****R, THERE ISNT AN EXIT THAT WAY"

Sure enough that got the other boys attention and he turned around on his bike and as he got closer to the "friend" he handled the situation calmly, trying to avoid confrontation...and told him "I think I'm just gonna go home" and the "friend" said "oh what am I a racist now, FUCK YOU N****R"

At this point my blood was boiling but, I didn't want to intervene because I was hopeful the guy would just ride home and not give that little shit the pleasure of getting the best of him.. and then the "friend" just kept on pressing buttons... hurling one hurtful comment after another to the kid, calling him a "p***y ass bitch" "n****r" this and that.. and I'm just like

Anyways, the boy getting insulted, drops his bike in the middle of the street and goes over to his "friend" and shoves him off his bike yelling at him "don't talk to me like that" and they start fighting, so I snatched my child up.. walked over to my water hose, turned it on and pulled it out and sprayed them down.. and told the jerk kid, you need to go home now before I call the cops. then he is like "fuck you, you n****r loving bitch" and at this point Im not even shocked by this kids vocabulary but I am shocked at his hatred at such a young age. I tell the other kid to grab his bike and sit on the porch.

The jerk kid left after he verbally harassed me.

I grab the kid who got called names, a towel, a snack, and a bottle of water and offer to let him use my phone to call his parents to pick him up.. and sit there with him on the porch and talk to him.. while my daughter was playing with his bike and handing him rocks

and I'm giving him a real talk at this point like "dude, friends don't treat friends that way, that kid isn't your friend..but in the same breath, you can't just lose your shit and hulk smash someone for being a garbage ass person, who yes... totally fucking sucks.. but you just gotta be the biggest person you can be and be clear with them you won't tolerate that kind of verbal abuse and walk the fuck away but I also, don't blame you.. I was furious for you." After about 20 minutes, he ends up taking his bike and riding home.

 Later in the evening.. the doorbell rings and it's the jerk boy and his parents.

They were pissed I sprayed their kid with water.. and I was like.."well did your son tell you why I sprayed him and his friend down?"

 And the son is like "ya because you're a nosey ass bitch" I completely ignore the kid. 

The dad glares at him and he shuts up. It's clear the kid twisted the story to look like the "victim who did no wrong" by listening to his mom repeating his version of the story: his "friend" attacked him for no reason and then I sprayed him and verbally abused him after he was attacked by his friend.

I busted out laughing. Pull my phone out, and I'm like "the funny thing about 2019, is all the amazing technology that's been created, I've been waiting years for these things to actually serve a purpose." *Secretly thinking, you're so fucked kid*

 I pointed to the camera that covers the side of our home and the front of our home.. and I open the app on my phone hand my phone to the mom.. and show them the live feed us us standing there. Then I scroll through the history feed to a few moments prior to the kids riding by on their bikes.. and just let them watch as the truth unfolds and after they apologize and leave.

Well then this morning, the doorbell rings and its the other kid and his mom and she has a cup of coffee and a some doughnuts with her and she's like thanking me for stepping in for her son and not just letting it go on.. and she talked about how her son is constantly teased and called names because of his skin tone.. she went on to tell me that her husband is half white/half Asian.. and that her son just constantly feels like he doesn't fit in with any crowd because he's different.. and I was like "I only intervened when it became physical..I don't like racial slurs but I hate violence.. so I immediately intervened when it became physical, I didn't want to see anyone get injured.. I took a moment to talk to your son after and I hope in the future he uses better judgement.

And then I turned to her son and was like "people will say mean ass shit to you.. tell those people you won't tolerate abusive language like than and walk away..  you're better than that." 

and the kid bashful as shit, was just like "ya, I know.. my parents grounded me for fighting.. I'll do better next time" 

The mom and I exchanged contact information.. and I guess her son, until he's done being grounded is going to come over here and do some yard work or help me if I need the help... Admirable. 

I feel like being a teenager ...who doesnt feel like they belong because of their skin color.. must suck even worse.

So in all of this.. it made me curious, do you feel that multiracial children get the worst treatment from their peers because they aren't enough of a race to fit in? 

In this instance, the boy on the receiving end of the verbal abuse is half black.. and had his mother not mentioned the fathers ethnicity, I would have assumed he was just black and white.. the child verbally abusing him was all white. Most of the families in our neighborhood are not racially mixed.. but we have a variety of different race families in our neighborhood (white, black, Asian, Indian, Hispanic)

so it really got me thinking about children who are mixed and if they are treated worse than others because they don't "fit in" with their peers who come from "exclusively" raced families?