re: How many of you grew up in a racist environment?

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I don’t think he’s actually a racist, but he says some shockingly racist things at times in kind of an offhand manner.

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This best describes the conundrum which is the OT. I mean how can you separate the two.

Raises hand. But moved away from it and it was just a bunch of ole baws using the N word and telling N jokes.

Different times.

My grandmother hated the "shanty irish"

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My in-laws however, while being some of the kindest people I've ever known, grew up in rural Mississippi and they just have really archaic views on race. They're ~75 now so they're not changing.

For instance, they came to a wedding for one of our friends and someone had a black guy as their date and my mother-in-law was speechless. She was wondering how that girl could do that to her parents.

Again, nicest people you'd ever meet. They just kind of think races are better off separately. It is so

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You must have married my wife’s long lost sister. 75 and from Mississippi. Great people, and I’ve never heard them say a hateful racist thing, but I’ve heard them say some things thoughtless racist things if that’s any different.

My dad was about the same, but I will say that he left Odessa and he was waaaaaaay better than his family. I didn’t think much of my uncles but my first thanksgiving there after Obama was elected was a giant N word fest so I decided to never go back. Never heard that word from my dad.

And I really didn’t like Obama.


There’s a weird generational racism that exists where I genuinely don’t think there’s any hate or malice amongst most in that generation but their minds are set in the 60s and we’re stuck with it till they die.

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And I really didn’t like Obama.

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Obama was extremely racist and divisive. He set race relations back 60 years.

His "typical White woman" comment about the woman who raised him. Told me everything I needed to know about him.

Michelle was even worse. Racist to her core.

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Let me guess. You think it's great to be proud of your race. Unless you're White.

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Wrong. I think being proud of your race, no matter what the race is weird. Being proud of your country is understandable but race encompasses far more different peoples and cultures. A country does but not to the level of race. I think someone is racist if they think it’s not ok to be white.

I’ve just seen posters on here who don’t like intermixing between races at all because they’re afraid white people will cease to exist or something.

I was a white kid playing at the mlk rec center and aau basketball. Black kids did and said all kinds of terrible things bc I was white. I was a victim of racism, but I don’t hold a grudge. People do bad things.

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Obama was extremely racist and divisive. He set race relations back 60 years.

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Obama was not a black president. Black people see Obama just as another figurehead of white supremacy.

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I grew up in Wisconsin

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I saw an article where some UW student group got in trouble for only having one or two black kids in their promotion. Then read that Wisconsin’s black population is only 5% so it was fairly accurate

I grew up in the fifties and sixties. My mother was sort of typical for the time, a sort of benevolent racist, using the N word as casually as describing a blue sky, but with a good heart, and always wanting to help people. My father was the local liberal and never used that word. We grew up with black people living nearby and we all played together. I was sometimes called a "n___ lover" growing up just because I had a few black friends. But I see evidence every day that some folks hate and distrust other folks because of color - and it is certainly not one race that hates another. Some hate on two or more other races or ethnic groups. As long as some people can gain by pushing racial hate, it will exist.