By The_FN_Gunny - 29/10/2013 22:31 - United States - Smyrna

Today, I was wearing a letterman jacket that had my school name and "Okinawa Japan" on the back. A high school kid walks up to me and says, "I can't forgive you people for bombing Pearl Harbor." I'm black. FML
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scooterdude720 19

You should have said (if he was white) "I can't forgive you people for slavery."

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qassaq 14

Well kids these days not that much interested in details..

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Shandra78 9

This whole ignorant american hick thing is getting out of hand. There's a problem with being too isolated. Like relating to people who didn't grow up in the same dirt road village.

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nightowl713 25

@49 your comment is pretty offensive. I grew up and still live in a small backwoods Texas town. Not now or ever have I been 'taught to be a racist'. You are no better than the original offender in the FML, stereotyping every 'hick' to be a racist. The south isn't really anything close to how it's portrayed in the moves, I can't speak of anywhere else, but I seriously doubt much of it is accurate.

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SuperMew 22

It depends on who you talk to. Having been to the South, I have had wonderful experiences with people there. However, like ever town, city, country, and racial group, there will be some ignorant and stupid people who make the others look bad. There are still many people in the town my aunt lives in that view blacks as ignorant and unworthy of real jobs or respect. I have seen a 13 year old boy call an old woman a "n*gger" and his father patting him on the back for it. I have also seen many interracial couples, who have beautiful, happy, healthy children and claimed they never heard a bad word in the small, "hick" town they grew up in.

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Narcisse_fml 25

Maybe he thought you were "Blackenese." lol

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XxxT3rr4xxX 25

Remind him that first your black and second that America bombed Japan not once but twice. Flipping people not knowing the full history these days.

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faintestlemon 2

Also take into account that was after Japan attacked the US...Know your history before you try to teach it

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CrazyGirlfriend 21

really...I think both were terrible acts and neither side is better than the other in the end. They can say they dont forgive them for pearl harbor then the japanese can say that they cant forgive us for bombing them either. In my personal opinion, I think Hiroshima was worse. Some people are still suffering from those effects to this day.

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BrianWinter 1

Well those two could have probably been avoided if pearl harbor hadn't happened, but knowing America we would've probably ended up doing it for another reason anywho.

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est000dog 11

In your position i don't know what would feel worse, being said something like that or to realise that ppl around you are that stupid

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rooneygirl420 13

The stupidity of some people doesn't cease to amaze me. My brother was born in Okinawa and kids in school would ask us if he was Japanese. We're white. So I totally understand dealing with morons like that.

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kder0aeon 9

well technically isn't your brother Japanese since he was born there? I'm assuming he received a Japanese birth certificate.

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WhisperSoflty 20

119, it's very possible that they're "navy brats" who's parent was stationed in Oki. The brother was probably born on base, which is considered American soil, so he would have received a US birth certificate.

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rooneygirl420 13

135 - you're right. Our father was a Marine

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rooneygirl420 13

119 - if a Hispanic is born in the US, he or she is a US citizen. That doesn't change his/her ethnic background. So even if my brother was a Japanese citizen, which he isn't (see #135's reply to your post), that doesn't change the fact that he's white, not Japanese/of Asian heritage

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jonahwalzer 12

My high school is in Okinawa Japan!!!!

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Telperion 8

"YDI" for not realizing there are black people in Japan - yes black Japanese people....(you're being ignorant racially as well - about our own history)

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MrTitusR 13

@61, Just because black people were there, doesn't mean that he was one of them. A black man born in africa from a family only every in africa, doesn't have 'history' in japan on the basis of also being black.

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username1776 3

You people are idiots, the fact that he's a different color had nothing to do with the kids comment. It's because he's an American. Bitches like y'all, who throw out the race card for every little thing, are what's wrong with this country

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Makayla18_18 13

... And this is exactly why I have lost faith in humanity.

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graceinsheepwear 33

Really? Exactly why?

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