I had to run an errand today, so left E and F with my neighbor from down the street. She took them and a couple of the other neighborhood kids to the park. When they were walking back, her neighbor yelled at the girls and told them to get out of his driveway, because he doesn't like kids. They were on the sidewalk, but whatever. He's pretty well known to be a crotchety old man, so they all brushed it off.
Then when she was pushing Freddie past in his car thingie, the man said to her, "When are you going to stop bringing this shit around, Tracy?" She asked him what he was referring to. He pointed at Freddie and said, "I don't want this in my neighborhood." She asked him if he was against babies in general, or just Black ones. She said he just stared at her and said "You know what I mean. This isn't right. You better not bring this kind of shit around when we're trying to sell our house."
She told him that he needed to keep his racist views to himself, and that she would bring whomever she wanted to her home, no matter what color they were. And that she was disgusted that he would direct hatred toward innocent children just because of the color of their skin.
And then he said
"Just wait till he grows up and rapes your daughter."
At which time she told him to go to hell and never to speak to her or her family again, and that if he did she would call the police and report him for harassment. She was so angry when she was telling me, she was shaking, but she said she couldn't keep quiet because she remembered what I'd posted on Facebook about being an ally, and she didn't want to be part of the problem.
I think we all know he's lucky I wasn't there. And I'm holding myself back from throwing rotten eggs at his house later.
Seriously, I don't even know. I'm still trying to process it all. I'm not even shocked. Just really fucking sad.
If E had heard him calling her baby brother "shit", she would have been completely devastated. He's SO fucking lucky that he didn't say that fuckery in front of her.
I'm going to talk to an officer about it. I don't know if it's something they do and how we would go about it. It might be smart to have something on record though.
That makes me so angry and sad. I do not understand how people can hate others because they don't share exactly the same traits and values. People like that are missing out on so much happiness and love in their lives because they are so clouded by hate and intolerance.