Chapter 653 Do Not Know Each Other without Fighting?
According to the original plan, the first thing after the plane landed in Los Angeles was to go back to Beverly and pick up Eric and Fia to see their new home.
There was no problem with the previous steps, but after returning to Beverly, things went off track and they needed to go to school first.
"Why?" Li Zitao asked Eric through the rearview mirror while driving the large Aegis H1 himself.
"I don't want to say it." Eric tilted his head and looked out the window.
"Eric...Charlie and I both need to know the reason, whether it's right or wrong, there is at least one reason...to blow your classmates' noses off."
Mary turned her head to look at him and asked seriously, yes, she was very serious.
Mary is resistant to violence, and so is her husband, at least not seeing him use violence to solve problems.
"He called me a nigger!" Eric looked up at Mary and asked sadly, "Why do they always do this? What good does it do them?"
"So you blow the bridge of his nose so that others won't bark anymore?" Li Zitao said calmly, "Did you know that someone once called me a yellow-skinned pig."
"Do you know how I did it?" Seeing his curiosity, Li Zitao said with a smile.
"How do you do it?" Eric asked, as if he wanted an answer from him.
"I knocked him to the ground with my fist, very easily, just like you did, and then, people around me looked at me differently."
When Eric smiled triumphantly, Li Zitao went on to say: "Their eyes seem to say, look, this is his original face,
They are such rude and barbaric outsiders, they are just like the propaganda said, anger only solves problems with violence,
We should stay away from him, we should quarantine them all, nothing else has changed,
In the eyes of some people, I am just a rare minority, but in the eyes of those who are prejudiced, they are even more disgusted with yellow skin. "
Hearing Li Zitao's words, Eric's expression was obviously taken aback. After pondering for a moment, he asked back: "What should I do?"
"You should warn him, put away your remarks... and apologize to me." Li Zitao nodded affirmatively.
"What if he doesn't listen?" Eric said.
"Then I support you in blowing his nose, or you can kick his crotch again." Li Zitao raised his right fist and laughed loudly.
"Hey!" Mary looked at the two dumbfounded, and then said helplessly jokingly: "Well, I agree with Charlie's point of view, but I need to save the last kick."
When you are insulted, threatened, and about to be hurt, it is everyone's freedom to fight back when the warning fails.
Being in the United States, this is very important. The kind of people who will always compromise will only get worse in the end.
When you need to defend your rights, you must never compromise, whether it is just a hurtful word or direct harm.
When Li Zitao and Mary took Eric into the principal's office, the first question they asked before the other party spoke was: Why would someone call him a nigger?
"Principal Jenna, haven't schools noticed how horrible discrimination is after what happened in Chicago?"
Li Zitao looked at Eric beside him and said, "Eric, can you wait outside the door for a while?"
"Okay." Eric nodded and walked out of the office.
"Mr. Charlie, I think your education method is very detrimental to Eric's future development, he..." Jenna said suddenly when Eric left the door.
"How about him? He should accept people's discriminating gazes and insulting names, nigger? Chocolate?" Mary's tall and straight body leaned forward slightly, looking at her with unkind eyes.
"Uh...I didn't mean that!" Jenna said with some embarrassment.
"That's good, otherwise I'd wonder if Brentwood is still a mixed school.
Mary looked at her with a smirk.
"Actually, Mrs. Lee, we are not a mixed school, and Eric is the only...boy in the school." Jenna had to stress this issue.
She knew very well what Eric had encountered and encountered. In her opinion, Li Zitao and Mary should find a suitable school for him.
Like those schools downtown, or schools that are all black, so you don't have trouble and understand that being called a 'nigger' is okay.
"I will compensate the other party's medical expenses... At the same time, I also hope that he can give Eric an apology. Of course, we will also apologize for what happened to him."
Li Zitao didn't want to be the bear's parent, but he felt the same for Eric's experience, as he said in the car, he had experienced that feeling himself.
Being looked at with a strange look, like looking at a monkey, that kind of feeling is terrible.
Now Li Zitao has learned to get used to it, as long as the other party doesn't come to trouble him, then each other will live in peace.
But Eric is only a 12-year-old child. He still cannot accept or get used to such discrimination. To resist and fight against injustice is exactly what he needs to do.
"Principal Jenna, what I want to tell you is...Eric is a part of this family. Although he is not officially adopted by us, it makes no difference!"
Mary looked at her with bright eyes, clarifying this fact again.
"Okay...I will try to communicate with the other party, if possible, I think this is the best result!" Principal Jenna said with a bit of relief.
Li Zitao reached out his hand to signal the other party to be free, and Principal Zhanna picked up the phone on the table and dialed a number.
The communication process was very simple. After expressing to the other party that Li and his wife were willing to compensate for the medical expenses and asking both parties to apologize to each other, the other party also accepted the plan.
Tonight, the other party will host a banquet at the Marry & Jesse restaurant in Compton.
That night, Li Zitao and Mary dressed up and took Eric in a small suit and Fia in an evening dress to the banquet.
Marry & Jesse is located on Compton's main street, Alams Street.
When they arrived, the roadside in front of the restaurant was full of luxury cars of this era, including a Lamborghini limited edition V8r.
"It can't be such a coincidence, can it?" Li Zitao's mind flashed the list of V8r purchased in Los Angeles, and several people walked into the restaurant led by the waiter.
When the waiter took him to a table next to the wall and looked at the unfamiliar faces of a family of three, Li Zitao couldn't help but wonder about the origin of the other party.
"Mr. Li, Mrs. Li, welcome..." The man with a three-dimensional complexion, sunken eye sockets, a straight nose, and an obvious western appearance stood up gracefully.
"Please allow me to introduce, Curry Madison, this is my wife Taylor, and my son Arthur." Curry Madison gestured with a neither humble nor overbearing smile.