how racist is your family?

[F1N3ST]

Just throw out comments that you know they will take off on. More often than not, they end up proving their idiocy.

I do this a lot at work too. If I get a racist on the phone...I'm going to mess with them. If the first thing that someone says is, "thank God I got someone that speaks English", I am going to have fun.

Ahaha, some guy I ended up being fairly good friends with said he worked customer support for Verizon I think, and had decent fun. How does a typical conversation go with someone that is happy you speak English? And uhh, it is kind of annoying when I call Microsoft to activate some shit, and get some guy in India, at least he can understand me, lol.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Sometimes my dad will make some racist comments but he never really means it. Like once we were driving out of walmart and saw a black guy in a car and my dad is like "woah it's dark in that car!".

At work we were pretty bad but it was all in fun, nobody was seriously racist. Like we'd always refer to a "large black coffee" is a "big great person". Once someone even got the Tim Horton's lady to write it that way so when they arrived at the office and we started to distribute coffee we saw that and loled. There is one guy who is dark skinned and he found it funny too.

 

[flavio]

hows that workin out for you?

i always wanted a sista to all my own...

Best thing I ever did. She's awesome and we have a great daughter.

 

[F1N3ST]

Sometimes my dad will make some racist comments but he never really means it. Like once we were driving out of walmart and saw a black guy in a car and my dad is like "woah it's dark in that car!".

At work we were pretty bad but it was all in fun, nobody was seriously racist. Like we'd always refer to a "large black coffee" is a "big great person". Once someone even got the Tim Horton's lady to write it that way so when they arrived at the office and we started to distribute coffee we saw that and loled. There is one guy who is dark skinned and he found it funny too.

Lol, I loled

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Sometimes my dad will make some racist comments but he never really means it. Like once we were driving out of walmart and saw a black guy in a car and my dad is like "woah it's dark in that car!".

At work we were pretty bad but it was all in fun, nobody was seriously racist. Like we'd always refer to a "large black coffee" is a "big great person". Once someone even got the Tim Horton's lady to write it that way so when they arrived at the office and we started to distribute coffee we saw that and loled. There is one guy who is dark skinned and he found it funny too.

I'd be interested to hear your family talk about homosexuality.

 

[Oceandevi]

Well we have the full range of racists. Some hide it, some dont.
When my mom was born, her aunt would not look at her because she was half mexican. That side of the family also had the grandpa that was in the kkk.

I dont hear too much because people watch what they say around me. I know they still say shit.

 

[I Saw OJ]

Grandparents somewhat. They dont do it to be mean or hateful but both are almost 90 years old and grew up in a different time.

 

[Bucks]

Lol, I loled

Haha so did I

 

[rudeguy]

While we are talking about it...at what point does generalizing become racist?

 

[Chaotic42]

Just throw out comments that you know they will take off on. More often than not, they end up proving their idiocy.

I do this a lot at work too. If I get a racist on the phone...I'm going to mess with them. If the first thing that someone says is, "thank God I got someone that speaks English", I am going to have fun.

That's not racism though.

 

[OogyWaWa]

i took some japanese friends to thanksgiving this year. i was quite surprised at what happened. my aunts, gandmother, and dad weren't racist, but a bit stupid about certain cultural things and language issues. however, my extremely red-neck uncle was bad ass and joked around with them. to top it off, my grandfather (a vietnam vet and hardcore army man) was the coolest out of everyone and was super nice to them. i figured he would have been giving them the stink eye the whole time... guess he had a good experience with the chicks back in the day, hahaha

 

[Crono]

That's not racism though.

Even Indians in America would rather not deal with Indian call center people.

Although sometimes you do get good representatives on the phone there. I've had faster and clearer communications with people here on average, though, than all those calls that get routed to India.

 

[mumedina]

No one in my family is racist, but word got around that I found black chicks attractive (as I do all others) and my mom was like "that's not true, is it?"...with a sort of disappointed look on her face. I was a bit disappointed with my mom, but in the end she just wants me to be happy, so it doesn't really matter. I, on the other hand, don't have a racist bone in my body.

 

[Miramonti]

While we are talking about it...at what point does generalizing become racist?

Whenever there's a financial advantage in claiming to be a victim.

 

[Anubis]

my grandmother makes us put out xmass lights at her house on a timer when shes not there for the holidays so "people don't think she is Jewish"

shes 95 and has lived in the same place since ~1955

 

[Crono]

While we are talking about it...at what point does generalizing become racist?

When it involves fear and/or hatred (fear and hatred are usually linked, anyway), or willful ignorance in the face of overwhelming, concrete information that refutes the generalization.

Usually blanket statements like "all _____ people are/do ________" are at least stereotypes and possibly racist, but statements like "most _____ people are/do __________ are not necessarily racist remarks.

 

[SunSamurai]

lol, not at all....

i'm mixed white and hispanic, so yeah, it's a diverse family... no racists...

well my mom is a little racists towards "n word" music...

No. Youre mixxed druggy and pothead

 

[2Xtreme21]

My uncle uses any and every opportunity to use the N-word, but he does it in "clever" plays-on-words that just highlight an incredibly immature attitude.

One from dinner today: "I love the coffee from Africa... ya know from 'great person-augua'... err sorry, Nicaragua." I told him the country is, in fact, in central America, and he said, "awesome people, spics.. what the fuck's the difference? They're both invading our country, and especially since Nig-bama is president now, they're all gonna be rising up."

Usually one of those every get-together. Couldn't call him on it since he was hosting Thanksgiving, but my dad excused himself from the table and went outside for some air.

It's pretty fucking pathetic that shit heads like this exist.

 

[JKing106]

Hard core racist family. It was so over top, it made me realize how utterly stupid it is. I'm pretty sure my dad was in the Klan at one time. He drops the "N" bomb at least every 30 minutes when I talk to him. In fact, he's obsessed with black people. I think it's from being from dirt ass poor Irish roots, and knowing the only difference between him and the blacks was the color of his skin. Gotta differentiate somehow. He's a fucking embarrassment. I won't go into public with him.

 

[Yongsta]

i took some japanese friends to thanksgiving this year. i was quite surprised at what happened. my aunts, gandmother, and dad weren't racist, but a bit stupid about certain cultural things and language issues. however, my extremely red-neck uncle was bad ass and joked around with them. to top it off, my grandfather (a vietnam vet and hardcore army man) was the coolest out of everyone and was super nice to them. i figured he would have been giving them the stink eye the whole time... guess he had a good experience with the chicks back in the day, hahaha

Japanese != Vietnamese

 

[Kanalua]

My wife's family is Native American (Navajo)...some of the most racist people I've met...

 

[Chaotic42]

My uncle uses any and every opportunity to use the N-word, but he does it in "clever" plays-on-words that just highlight an incredibly immature attitude.

When I was a kid, we had to read some little paragraph about missionaries in church. My missionaries were in Niger, which I pronounced the only way I knew how...

 

[Six]

I'm asian. I thought I was a closet racist for a bit. A few people have said that I was...due to my comments like "...of all the black people I've met, I only respect a small handful." But I don't think I am a racist. I have two black friends that I keep in close contact with. Funny thing is...someone once referred to one of my friend as "your black friend" and I thought...who are you talking about. Then it hit me; I didn't see my black friends as black. I think I'm just prejudice against ghetto people, because growing up in the ghettos, we got our shit stolen all the time. Also some buff black teenager with glasses gave me a black eye for looking at him. I was 11.

 

[PieIsAwesome]

Sitting hear overhearing my father having a discussion with visitors in the next room.
"The Jews are responsible for every bad situation. . ."

 

[zerocool84]

I always love it when people say they are mixed so they can't be racist, they have a friend who's black or mexican so they can't be racist, or they have a family member who's black or mexican so they can't be racist. It's so stupid.