Mormon Racism
Mormon Racism
Here is another sad story from when I lived in Phoenix AZ. I came home from work in 1999 and my wife at the, was extremely upset. An older white man (Mormon) decided he didn’t like my 9yr old Mexican/American son playing in the pool. My son who has always been respectful of course didn’t really understand this at the time. He told my son to stop splashing around and getting him wet (while he was actually sitting in the pool, in the hot AZ sun) so my son moved to the other side of the pool to show respect. Yet this idiot decided to say more. Well my son went to his mother, she come out and tried talking to him, (and that’s how we found out he was Mormon). I happened to come home early from work and got bombarded with this, which immediately made me mad. I went out to the pool and politely asked him what went on. He related a big story of how my son was cannon balling him and just being a brat. At this I told him I had already spoken to my son and wife and called him a liar. My son obviously has better manners than you, what you couldn’t address his mother or me because you can only deal with 9yr olds? He was getting pretty mad at me and started swearing at me in front of my children and other peoples’ children. I told him to shut up and appreciate the fact that I served this country 11 yrs so idiots like him can make life difficult for others, and that if he ever talks to my family again or says anything back to me right then and there I would pull him out of the pool and throw him out of the area. I just stared at him and said go-ahead say something.
The only reason I brought up the Mormon side is that there are some strains of that religion feel that only white people see the light of God. So they are racist towards everyone else. And we had already experienced other similar issues like this.
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