I am racist and my daughter is a skank

Give me a moment while I pick my jaw up off of the floor, pick my eyeballs up and put them back into my head and get some q-tips to clean my ears.

Let me explain...

I received a forwarded email this morning about Barack Obama. I will not post it here, but will say that it was not a very nice email. I am not one to automatically believe what I hear about others, so I copied and pasted the email contents and pasted to a post in OT on FF for assistance in knowing whether the information I received was true or not. I am NOT up on politics or religions other than Christianity. Which is all the more reason why I asked for help - since I, basically, know nothing.

This is an excerpt of one of the replies to my question: "Do you know anything about this man? Or are you just racist against all Muslims?"

When I read that comment, my mouth hit the floor and my eyes popped out of my head. You have got to be kidding me! I am racist against no one - period. I can't believe something like that was posted to ME! Obviously this person has no clue about me. Obviously. But it still threw me for a loop that someone could blatantly disregard my words (asking for help) and read into my post something totally out of line - about me. Wow.

And now about my daughter being a skank. Obviously she is not. But she is a lovely young lady (in personality and looks) that other young ladies are becoming jealous of. These other young ladies are supposed to be friends of my daughter. I've never had a "friend" call me names before. Another wow. It amazes me (and not in a good way) that these girls are so nasty to each other. None of them are ever happy for each other. It's all some big contest and if you aren't the "winner" of whatever the topic of the day is, then the "winner" is called nasty names. Shame on you girls. And shame on your parents for not teaching you how to be a better person than that. Where does this hatefulness come from?

Instead of picking on her/at her... why don't you girls try to be more like her? My daughter would never call any of you - her friends - a skank. Even if she thought it, deep down.

You women out there - who jump to conclusions, who assume, who have nastiness and hatred in your blood and attitudes... perhaps try a little forethought and kindness instead. :)