Category: Let's talk
My husband took our son in his stroller with him to the bank last Saturday. They then decided to stop at Burger King first before returning home. Everything went well and they came home and we ate and generally enjoyed the remainder of our day. Monday, he went to our manager's place to fax some paperwork. The manager then proceeded to inform him that the police had come to his door and said that they were responding to a report that was made by someone who saw "a blind black man who kidnapped a white baby and was dragging him acrost the street." Here are a few things to note. My husband and I are a biracialcouple; he's black and I'm white. Our son does look a lot like me; wavy brown hair and light skin. The cop told the manager that he would not come bother us, but just wanted us to know what was said and obviously he had to respond to this report by law. At first when I heard this, I was angry. I thought the fool who made the report was a racist piece of whitetrash who had no right making assumptions like that about my husband. Then,I calmed down and I actually see the humor of it. What ignoramous would assume a blind man stole a baby? Why or how could he take the baby and get awaay with it? How was he dragging him when he was actually in fact in his stroller? I guess the other thing I wonder is, should we get some kind of paternity results or something so that people will know he's my son's biological father? Or, do you really think this is just a one-time weird thing that may not ever happen again? The other thing I have to say is that this is why it's best not to spank your children in public. All my husband was doing was pulling Nathaniel's stroller acrost the street and look what happened.
Wow, there's one crazy story for ya. I'd be seriously disturbed if this wasn't some one time freaky accident. I'd imagine your husband is listed on your son's birth certificate as your son's biological father. It's always a good idea to have a copy of a birth certificate around, so just make sure you have that, that's all you need. Apart from that it's just something to remember and laugh at, or at least to tell people about, in the future.
I don't think one syhould ever spank one's child anyway, but that's a subject for a whole different board and there's no one right way to raise a baby anyway, lol.
Today while grocery shopping our older son managed to sneak away and open the biggest box of cup cakes he could find and eat one, so we ended up with 20 cup cakes on our counter.
Cheers and, yeah, hope you won't find that people are genrally that crazy and irrational.
hehehe. good story
wow Brandi...thanks for sharing.
Wow! This is some tale, but it really doesn't surprise me all that much. People will jump to any conclusion, no matter how stupid it might be. White people see someone of a different color and immediately think "bad person" when 99 percent of the time they aren't. Then, it probably doesn't register until later, how could a blind man find a baby, take it, walk calmly way without anyone yelling at him that he stole the child? That's crazy! As another poster said, keep a copy of the birth certificate handy just in case. And I hope this doesn't happen again.