how racist is your family?

[TridenT]

I think they're all racist to a degree. It's mostly unaware/unintentional racism though. My father likes to watch stupid shows like Maury and Jerry Springer/etc... There were people who were being really loud and never would give each other fair room to speak(Which is typical), but they happened to be black this time. So he said something that came off racist because black people are supposed to be really loud apparently(Seems like I've heard this before, but not often).... And these people happened to be black on the show, and not redneck whites or anything else this time, but black. I wanted to refute his comment and say, "All the people who go on that show are crazy and loud. It isn't just black people," but I didn't... I just went, "Meh. Meh daddy is a bit racist." Although he tried to say how it wasn't like that for all of them it was just for some because he was in the army and said there were plenty of nice and good black people in there... It didn't make it any better.

So it's mostly unaware/unintentional or self-righteous or... Idk... No one in my family is like, "Them black folk who live near us is a bunch of god damn KFC-eating, watermelon loving, black niggas."

I'm not racist from what I can tell. Although I do judge people based upon statistics which happen to come off as racist.

 

[Fritzo]

My inlaws are VERY racist---they call every race every vulgar name in the book and actually think their stereotypes are true.

What's funny is they're all Mexican. My wife's grandfather was so racist that he denied being Mexican for the last 20 years of his life and claimed he was Italian. He even made up a fake life history to back it up. He was racist against himself! He was a Pearl Harbor survivor though, so we cut him a lot of slack and just play along.

My family (including my wife and myself) are not racist at all. I think it's something that will slowly go away over time and affects a certain generation more than others.

 

[F1N3ST]

racist? No.
Classist? Kinda. If you can't be bothered to learn to read and write properly, then i haven't got much sympathy for you. The same thing applies to bad parenting and the acceptance of self-destructive pop culture.

That said, i feel there's a difference between hating on someone because they have a high melatonin concentration in their skin and hating on someone because they were too stupid to finish high school and then proceeded to get knocked up. (and if you think the second category is primarily ethnic minorities, you've never been down south. @#$@$ stupid hicks.)

i voted for obama, so i cannot be racist!!

OMG, LURKERSs! D: