Ignorance
Memories that make me cringe When I was around 10 years old, my father and his girlfriend at the time brought me to a summer party at a friends house. This was somewhere in an Urban area, but the city escapes my mind. The house was full of strangers. I didn't recognize anyone. I was not a very social kid. At some point or another, these two other boys began interacting with me. One was a chubby young black boy and the other was white, very thin, with long dark blonde hair. At some point during our interaction, I ignorantly asked the kid with the long hair, "Why is your hair so long like a girls hair?". I didn't realize at the time how a question like that might make someone feel. Needless to say he got very upset, and the other boy said to me, something along the lines of - it's because of his religion asshole. They were both a little bit older than me, but still kids nonetheless. I immediately regretted what I said. In hindsight, realizing that I had...