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Judgy Karen Tries To Grab White Kid From Hispanic Man, Learns A Lesson After Law Enforcement Arrives
Let’s be honest: as far as we’ve come as a species, we’ve still got plenty of kinks to iron out. And we think everyone can agree that racism is one of the worst. Treating people differently all because of their skin color is absurd, but the problem just won’t go away.
One Hispanic guy turned to an online community to share his story of a dramatic mix-up in a park involving his Caucasian bestie’s kid and a woman who flipped out after she saw them horsing around. She instantly called the cops, and that’s where things got interesting.
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Racists are the worst, especially when they don’t even make an effort to hide it
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One Hispanic guy, who describes himself as on the larger side, was playing in a park with his white bestie’s kid when a woman started ranting at him, phone out and filming
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She demanded the guy put the giggling red-headed kid down, telling him she’d already called the cops, so he did, not wanting any trouble
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Things escalated when she actually grabbed the little boy by the arm, snatching him so hard she left a bruise
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When the eventually cops showed up, though, she was the one who ended up in cuffs before too long
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Now the guy’s turned to an online community, wondering if having the bigoted woman arrested was a jerk move
Imagine enjoying a wholesome day at the park with a kid who basically thinks you’re a human jungle gym… then suddenly getting accused of kidnapping. That’s what happened to the original poster (OP), a 6-foot, 300-pound oilfield worker who has been “uncle of the year” to his best friend’s red-headed son since day one.
While giving the kid, “Marcus”, a fun day out, playtime turned into a mini mission: chase the giggling child down and carry him back to the car. Cute, right? Well, not according to a random park vigilante who thought a large Hispanic man plus a small white child must mean kidnapping. She got in OP’s face, grabbed the boy’s arm, and called the cops.
Marcus immediately hid behind OP, bruised where the stranger had snatched at him. The situation escalated fast. Police arrived, separated everyone, and started asking questions. Fortunately, OP had one secret weapon: his wife. Tiny, furious, and Welsh, she showed up armed with nine years’ worth of adorable photos of OP and Marcus.
The officers quickly figured out the actual aggression came from the self-appointed hero, not the man carrying the happy kid. The woman ended up arrested, leaving Marcus safe and OP asking netizens whether or not he could have handled things better, or at least any differently.
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Let’s be real: things can go sideways fast when racism rears its ugly head. The woman obviously had the wrong idea (or a few) and didn’t think twice before acting on it. At least her stint as a vigilante backfired on her, but it all makes one thing crystal clear: she’s a racist. So, what’s the deal with racism anyway? We went looking for answers.
Randolph Walker from EBSCO explains that racism as a widespread social phenomenon rose in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries as European explorers in unfamiliar lands encountered indigenous peoples who looked, spoke, and lived very differently.
According to Walker, racial hierarchies were invented to help those in power justify the exploitation of other peoples, even up to the level of denying their humanity. We all know the mess that’s led to. Interestingly enough, ancient and medieval worlds generally didn’t even identify people by race, but in geographic terms instead.
The folks at DoSomething say that, in New York City, 88% of police stops in 2018 involved Black and Latinx people. Of those stops, 70% were completely innocent. Here’s another shocker: on average, Black men in the US receive sentences that are 19.1% longer than those of White men convicted for the same crimes. That’s just all kinds of wrong, and racism hard at work.
We’d say the obvious bigot in OP’s story got exactly what was coming to her. Perhaps in future she’ll think twice before jumping to another POC conclusion.
What do you think? Was having the woman arrested going too far, or did she deserve to be dragged off in cuffs? Share your opinion in the comments!
In the comments, readers came to the swift conclusion that the original poster did the right thing and that the dangerously racist woman got what was coming to her
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Rick Murray 3 weeks ago
AITA? Nah, man, f**k that woman. While she might have a reason to be concerned, such are the times we live in, that all vanished the instant she hurt the kid. She was filming, and she had called the cops (and seemingly without bothering to talk to you at all first) and *then* she grabbed him. Nope, nope, and nope some more.
Lila Allen 3 weeks ago
Happens all the time. My husband is huge and dark skinned and I'm a tiny white lady. Our youngest has close to my pale skin and the number of times I had to stop some angry white middle aged woman from weaponizing security staff against my husband is way higher than it should be.
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detective miller's hat 3 weeks ago
My friend (black, male, 39) has had the police called on him SIX times when he's been out taking care of his girlfriend's kid (white, female, 5).
Historyharlot93 3 weeks ago
We adopted our son from Vietnam. He wandered off at Disney World when he was 3. We missed him immediately and a worker had picked him up. The policy is to stand there waiting for the parents to find them. The worker didn’t want to give him to my husband, thank goodness our son held out his arms and said “Daddy!” We always had a fear someone would try to take him from us when he was little because they thought we were stealing him.
roddy 3 weeks ago
They probably didn't end up charging her, but she'll think twice about jumping to conclusions from now on. Sometimes family relationships are not obvious. Kids don't always resemble their parents, and they can be adopted. Or being cared for by a sitter. If she was concerned, she could have asked the child, 'are you okay?' It would have saved a lot of confusion.
Crystalwitch60 3 weeks ago
If she wasn’t charged ,she won’t lol Karen’s need locking up for anything to sink in
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KatSaidThat 3 weeks ago
Racism, a*****t and battery of a child. Hope prison loves her long time.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 3 weeks ago
This woman would have lost her mind (well, more than she already has) if she'd seen me while growing up, the adopted white child in a Mexican family XD In Hispanic families, basically any adult has the "right" to discipline any child, even if the child is not their child, if they see the child misbehaving or really being naughty. I got smacked by so many chanclas by adults that were just cousins or aunts or distant relatives XD
V 3 weeks ago
My daughter is white. Her best friends are of Vietnamese, Samoan and Somalian descent and I have taken them to the playground (yes they do look like a printer started to run out of ink when they are all standing together) but I have never had someone thinks I'd kidnapped any of them but I am white too.
Load More Replies... Lila Allen 3 weeks ago
Been there. My husband is a 6'4" Native American ( Paiute) and I am a tiny white woman. Our oldest is a mini me for his dad with dark skin. Our youngest is a lot paler and has grey eyes. Multiple times I have had to intercede when some middle aged white woman tried to take our kid or call security thinking my husband was the bad guy. It is exhausting.
megabeth 3 weeks ago
Smh.... One would like to think these stupid people had good but misguided intentions.. Unfortunately I think it's just a racist reaction. One of OURS with a THEM?! As an aside, pale grey eyes are so lovely!
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DawnoftheDead 3 weeks ago
My husband is Mexican and I'm white our kid is a vampire pale red head. Genes are wierd okay lol. My husband always has baby photos of our kid on his phone just incase something like this happens. He's 15 now, so probably won't be an issue, but you never know
Betsy S 2 weeks ago
The one who wonders if it would be the same with a Hispanic or "African AMERICAN" child! It's in Canada. Black people in Canada are not referred to as African AMERICANs". Canadians are not USians. It was made clear that is was in Canada. Black people in Canada are just black people.
Crystalwitch60 3 weeks ago (edited)
Ha Karen KARMA BIATCH KARMA !! n from an also Welsh lady well half Welsh ,a valley lass lol I also had my kids late in life , I’d have been as pi s s e d as your wife was , like really woman get your vile hands of my godson or something like lol I hope she was sentenced for assaulting a child , what did his mum n dad say ? NTA op she deserved it totally
Jan 3 weeks ago
8 is old enough to ask if they know the person they are with. It's not like this was a toddler she thought was in danger. I don't want people to think they don't need to intervene when something seems suspicious to them. If this had been a child abduction situation then the kidnapper would more than likely be armed. Safety of all including oneself has to be taken into account. Calling the cops, recording just in case, asking others to get involved to hold the suspicious person in place if you are truly convinced something is not right are all acceptable when the safety of a child is at stake but this Karen was out of line. How did she think she was going to take on a 6' 300 lb man.
Rick Murray 3 weeks ago
AITA? Nah, man, f**k that woman. While she might have a reason to be concerned, such are the times we live in, that all vanished the instant she hurt the kid. She was filming, and she had called the cops (and seemingly without bothering to talk to you at all first) and *then* she grabbed him. Nope, nope, and nope some more.
Lila Allen 3 weeks ago
Happens all the time. My husband is huge and dark skinned and I'm a tiny white lady. Our youngest has close to my pale skin and the number of times I had to stop some angry white middle aged woman from weaponizing security staff against my husband is way higher than it should be.
Load More Replies... detective miller's hat 3 weeks ago
My friend (black, male, 39) has had the police called on him SIX times when he's been out taking care of his girlfriend's kid (white, female, 5).
Historyharlot93 3 weeks ago
We adopted our son from Vietnam. He wandered off at Disney World when he was 3. We missed him immediately and a worker had picked him up. The policy is to stand there waiting for the parents to find them. The worker didn’t want to give him to my husband, thank goodness our son held out his arms and said “Daddy!” We always had a fear someone would try to take him from us when he was little because they thought we were stealing him.
roddy 3 weeks ago
They probably didn't end up charging her, but she'll think twice about jumping to conclusions from now on. Sometimes family relationships are not obvious. Kids don't always resemble their parents, and they can be adopted. Or being cared for by a sitter. If she was concerned, she could have asked the child, 'are you okay?' It would have saved a lot of confusion.
Crystalwitch60 3 weeks ago
If she wasn’t charged ,she won’t lol Karen’s need locking up for anything to sink in
Load More Replies... KatSaidThat 3 weeks ago
Racism, a*****t and battery of a child. Hope prison loves her long time.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 3 weeks ago
This woman would have lost her mind (well, more than she already has) if she'd seen me while growing up, the adopted white child in a Mexican family XD In Hispanic families, basically any adult has the "right" to discipline any child, even if the child is not their child, if they see the child misbehaving or really being naughty. I got smacked by so many chanclas by adults that were just cousins or aunts or distant relatives XD
V 3 weeks ago
My daughter is white. Her best friends are of Vietnamese, Samoan and Somalian descent and I have taken them to the playground (yes they do look like a printer started to run out of ink when they are all standing together) but I have never had someone thinks I'd kidnapped any of them but I am white too.
Load More Replies... Lila Allen 3 weeks ago
Been there. My husband is a 6'4" Native American ( Paiute) and I am a tiny white woman. Our oldest is a mini me for his dad with dark skin. Our youngest is a lot paler and has grey eyes. Multiple times I have had to intercede when some middle aged white woman tried to take our kid or call security thinking my husband was the bad guy. It is exhausting.
megabeth 3 weeks ago
Smh.... One would like to think these stupid people had good but misguided intentions.. Unfortunately I think it's just a racist reaction. One of OURS with a THEM?! As an aside, pale grey eyes are so lovely!
Load More Replies... DawnoftheDead 3 weeks ago
My husband is Mexican and I'm white our kid is a vampire pale red head. Genes are wierd okay lol. My husband always has baby photos of our kid on his phone just incase something like this happens. He's 15 now, so probably won't be an issue, but you never know
Betsy S 2 weeks ago
The one who wonders if it would be the same with a Hispanic or "African AMERICAN" child! It's in Canada. Black people in Canada are not referred to as African AMERICANs". Canadians are not USians. It was made clear that is was in Canada. Black people in Canada are just black people.
Crystalwitch60 3 weeks ago (edited)
Ha Karen KARMA BIATCH KARMA !! n from an also Welsh lady well half Welsh ,a valley lass lol I also had my kids late in life , I’d have been as pi s s e d as your wife was , like really woman get your vile hands of my godson or something like lol I hope she was sentenced for assaulting a child , what did his mum n dad say ? NTA op she deserved it totally
Jan 3 weeks ago
8 is old enough to ask if they know the person they are with. It's not like this was a toddler she thought was in danger. I don't want people to think they don't need to intervene when something seems suspicious to them. If this had been a child abduction situation then the kidnapper would more than likely be armed. Safety of all including oneself has to be taken into account. Calling the cops, recording just in case, asking others to get involved to hold the suspicious person in place if you are truly convinced something is not right are all acceptable when the safety of a child is at stake but this Karen was out of line. How did she think she was going to take on a 6' 300 lb man.
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