Do You Have Any Racists In Your Family?

I have zero tolerance for racism, but do have a family member who has to label everybody. She'd prefer everybody in her life is just like her. I try to ignore her remarks, but don't always succeed.
 

Aunt Bea said:
Racism is a tough one,

I tend to believe that if people need to identify people that they know by race or ethnicity they may in fact be racist. I know a couple of folks that seem to be quite nice on the surface but they always talk about their Gay friend, African American co-worker, Latino SIL, etc... It makes me wonder why they need to stress the labels when they talk about people.
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,I totally agree with you Aunt Bea, I think the extra part of the description is just another form of rasicm. Totally unnecessary description. Just as easy to say my friend Pete. or Jake, my co worker, jim my SIL. I think the person is standing behind the description

I am Granny to two half Haitian boys and very proud of it
 
If there were any racists in my family I never knew it. I was raised to embrace everyone and had friends of all backgrounds welcome in my parent's home. I don't even remember having racist friends or neighbors. I couldn't be friends with a racist anyway they are filled with hate and there's no room in my life for things like that. When I see some things happening on the news it really saddens me
 
My family are not racists. My mom told me that a great aunt of mine was. I never knew her and know one else in her family followed in her foot steps not even her children and there were many.. In high school we had quite a mix and everyone got along and respected each other. A friend of mine and her husband who I've known for years have a strange tendency to mention the race of a person when having a conversation. Not necessarily in a negative way.An example would be, This wonderful, then mention the race, man or women let us borrow their cell phone or waited on us, etc. I don'[t know if it is a quirk or they are going out of their way to prove they aren't racist but really are. I was just mentioning this to the hubby the other day. The next time we get together, I am going to ask why they always mention that first. I've never heard anyone else do that.
 
I freely admit to being a racist myself.

In the event of any sporting contest, from soccer to Scrabble. I get out my ABE (Anybody But England) T shirt.

On a more serious note, if I see a headline yjay someone has been battered to death locally I quickly lose interest if it becones apparent that it's Lithuanian on Romanian or something similar, with the feeling "Let them get on with it."
 
My parents were. Especially against blacks. We grew up in a smaller, mostly white (at the time) city with few non-white people. I still vividly remember walking down Main street with my mom and running into a black male school mate. We said hello and stopped to chat for a minute. After he walked away my mom went totally ballistic that I was actually talking with a black boy IN PUBLIC (this was in 1971 or so). What would people think..they would think we were dating. SMH. When I graduated from college (1984, started later in my 20's) with a degree in Social work my dad asked me if I could tell my bosses that I did not want to wortk with blacks or gays as clients (by the way, he used the less appropriate words ).
I turn out exact opposite. Accepting of all. Maybe disliking a person for behavior, but not for color or preferences. My one brother was racist as well, but to lesser extreme. My parents would be totally beside themselves these days with the Transgender issues in the forefront.
 
Hoot N Annie said:
I'm proud to be a racist. I love them all. NASCAR, Indy cars, dirt track, modifieds, local high school track, trotters, Kentucky Derby, soap box derby, etc. If it's a race, I love it. My dad raced dirt track midgets in the early 1950s when I was just a little fella. Loved them ever since. (p.s. - "midgets" is not a reference to little people - they were/are smaller race cars with (usually) 4 cylinder engines.)View attachment 32663 btw, this is not my dad's car. Only picture I could find at the moment.
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Hoot N Annie...you're a HOOT ! :D Yes Lon, I have a racist in my family. I couldn't believe it when at our family reunion he was bugging out because we have half Chinese cousins and bi-racial (Black-White) relatives. Ironically, his granddaughters are bi-racial. I sat him down privately and told him he needs to stop all the nonsense. We also have half Japanese cousins...so what! But he's who he is and at our ages, no words will change him. Luckily I only see him every few years. His father, my dear grand uncle didn't appreciate it when his favorite granddaughter married a White man. But I can understand his feelings. He fought in a war to protect this country and wasn't even allowed to buy a cup of coffee at any lunch counter he wanted when he came home. He saw first hand the despicable treatment of African Americans in this country and was subjected to it for too long. Over time, he came to like and respect his grand son-in-law.
 
My deceased sister after she became brainwashed by a radical religion. My BIL also. Now, neither of them thought they were. They'd point out that their church had a black family (token blacks). But she was, and he is. Also a nephew...he's a minority person, but that doesn't get in the way or him being prejudiced. Now, my grown DD is of half Arab origin, and she isn't. It does bother me all the racism in the US.
 
I don't know if it's considered Racism, but my Dad's Mother was really prejudice over Irish people, and she was Italian. When I met my Husband (he is Irish) my grandmother would introduce us to her friends by saying "This is my Granddaughter and her boyfriend. He is Irish but nice." Over the years many of my cousins married people of other nationalities and it didn't seem to bother her like Irish people bothered her. The rest of the family was not prejudiced in any way towards anyone.
 
fureverywhere said:
Back in the day the relations all came from small town Pennsylvania...this was a family reunion...
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If you substitute "rural Mississippi" for "small town Pennsylvania" that same picture would be acceptable in the family album on my Dad's side. To his credit, he fought against his racist upbringing after moving to California and raising his family there, but he still had trouble when I went through my rebellious period as a teen and brought home a black football player as a date.
 
Define racist. Today the word has taken far too broader meaning for a yes/ no answer.

For example is it being racist to claim that some races of people are better suited to some things than others? The corollary would be that some races are less well suited to some things than others so would that be racist to claim?
 
aeron said:
Define racist. Today the word has taken far too broader meaning for a yes/ no answer.

For example is it being racist to claim that some races of people are better suited to some things than others? The corollary would be that some races are less well suited to some things than others so would that be racist to claim?
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The way that term is used these days, I have come to the conclusion that in my country, the USA, everybody is a racist by someone's definition. Often the ones that are the worst at it are the ones that like to call others that name at the proverbial drop of a hat because they think it is their ace in the hole to get what they want. LOL. It is getting to be silly.
 
dpwspringer said:
The way that term is used these days, I have come to the conclusion that in my country, the USA, everybody is a racist by someone's definition. Often the ones that are the worst at it are the ones that like to call others that name at the proverbial drop of a hat because they think it is their ace in the hole to get what they want. LOL. It is getting to be silly.
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Yup!
 
Shalimar said:
Racist. Someone who regularly disparages those of a race different than themselves. Simplified, condensed version of a volatile and complex topic.
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I would change that just a tad to become "Someone who regularly disparages those of a race different than themselves without just or legitimate cause".
 
Dudewho said:
Was he a Southern Democrat?

Not to belittle anyone, there was a time when the KKK was prominet in Southern politics.
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We lived in a small township in Illinois at the time. Yes, he grew up in the Deep South. When he was a member, I was a young child oblivious to it all, glad I was young and innocent. Absolutely unacceptable.
 
Shalimar said:
Racist. Someone who regularly disparages those of a race different than themselves. Simplified, condensed version of a volatile and complex topic.
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That is a perfect definition, but, sadly, not the PC one in America today. Silly but illustrative example - We have "Miss Black America" pageants. Can you imagine a "Miss White America" one??

I remember a recent case when the newspaper ran an analysis of the race of students disciplined. It turned out there was a disparity of "disciplined" vs "percentage of the population" and the school district established rules based on racial balance, not actual actions. How ridiculous!!
 

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