(07-08-2023, 10:30 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(07-08-2023, 10:17 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: That's a key difference between us there. In my sophomore year we got wind that White Boy Day was going to happen so a half dozen football players, 2 baseball players, and some guys from the drum line grabbed the social leader of that group and told him what would happen to him personally if anything went down. When the last bell rang nothing happened. The only way to stop this stuff is to actively mitigate it, backing down or playing defense doesn't work. It's the first and most important lesson I taught my kids and I hope they live it out all their lives.

Uh, good for you?
I think we might have been wrong for not telling an adult, but our decision to simply stick together that day did work.
Because we were only dealing with rumors.  If we had heard with our own ears that a certain group of kids was going to jump one of us, we might have confronted that group.  
What about you? Did any of those football and baseball and drum line guys actually hear about white boy day directly from the black kids that were threatening to do it? Or did they just confront and threaten a socially prominent black guy over nothing?