The boy was 8 and the girl was almost 4. As in the report I read, quite a burly 8 year old. She apparently followed him on the playground and irritated him. He slapped her in the face, so hard that dad could see the red marks when she ran to him. So now one wonders how will he grow up to handle more difficult situations with women in general if that is his first reaction?

But what the children did is not the point here. How the parents reacted is. That the mom was not horrified that her son slapped a 4 year old through the face, but chose to spout racial remarks at the man (in front of her child) very much is. And that the man chose to keep the argument going, instead of going to management in front of his already upset child is telling. 

And lastly if the different Spur Franchises, went only as far as to put a notice on their community FB pages, to condemn the incident and its outcome and re-affirm their comitment to the community - I bet, the community would have rallied behind thm