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So, to start things off my son is four years old. While he has a very strong vocabulary, he also had a bad speech impediment that me and my wife are working on.
That being said, I should have cracked down on one mispronounced word. It's a bad one, to say the very least.
So, today me and my son go to Walmart just to get some dinner, and a set of kitchen knives. Because he kept bugging me about it, I took him to the toy aisle where a nubian family is looking about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures. Here's where the mispronounced word comes in.
My son was just fine looking at the Spiderman toys, he never mispronounced Spiderman. Now, TMNT? That's a real tough one for him. I prayed that he wouldn't see them... but he did. As soon as he saw Leonardo he shouted, to my great chagrin.
"Teenage Mutant N&#@ Turtles!"
The father of the nubian family furrowed his brow at me, and I didn't know what to say, so I just winged it. "His mother is black. " The man just shook his head and told me it was wrong to teach him my racist beliefs. Now I'm afraid to go into Walmart. Talk about embarrassing.
TL;DR: Brought my son into Walmart, he said a slur by accident, and now I'm humiliated.
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