I’ll never forget the first (and only) time my dad said he was proud of me.

By u/thr33beggars, its satirical story of a child making his racist dad proud using the ‘Despite making up only 13% of the population‘ copypasta.

I’ll never forget the first (and only) time my dad said he was proud of me.

I remember it like it was yesterday. I was five and he had taken me to run errands on his day off work. We were at the bank so he could do some adult stuff, not sure what exactly and it’s not really important. What’s important is that I was holding his hand when a black man walked in and got in line behind us.

I hadn’t really seen that many black people up close so I couldn’t help but stare. He glared at me, and then asked my dad if I had a staring problem. Even though I was five, I remember saying, “Hey mister, why do people who look like you only make up 13% of the population but commit 52% of the crime? They talked about it on Sesame Street but they never said why?” The man started flipping out and the bank manager asked us to leave. Right outside the bank door, my dad got down on one knee and said, “Son, I could spend all my life teaching you to be racist but it seems like you are already advanced for your age. I’m proud of you.”

My dad was later sent to prison for a variety of hate crimes but I still carry that memory fondly.