Unfriend Racist, lose all contact with young cousin. WWYD?

[Anonymous]

OP:

Guessing you're not a fan of Al Jolson.

[Anonymous]

If wearing blackface *isn't* counted as racism, seems like there's an awfully high bar of egregious behavior that a person need to display to count as a bona fide racist. Wonder who that protects ... ?

OP, you are a good person to stay in touch with your cousin.

[Anonymous]

unfollow his feed. I do this with a few wackjob relatives. They live in WI, so the only way they see my kids is if I go there, or through FB. That isn't enough for me to want to see their crazy posts on a regular basis though.

[Anonymous]

I don't know why some posters are so shocked a person could date interracialy yet still be racist.

OP stay in his life for the girl's sake. She'll need your family's presence to help counter the garbage he likely filling her head with.

[Anonymous]

OMG people think, in this day and age, that there is ANY way being in blackface isn't racist???!!! Holy hell. BLACKFACE IS RACIST. PERIOD FULL STOP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm from a mixed race family. My cousin was involved with a white guy and had a child with him. She went off the rails years ago and he is raising the child. I FB friended him so that our family could stay in touch with her. Sadly, his feed reveals that despite his attraction to AA women, he is racist. It's not usually overt stuff, but enough to make most people of any race uncomfortable.

Last night, he posted (was tagged in?) a picture from last Halloween that showed him in a blackface costume!

My first reaction is to unfriend him. However, if I do so, my family will lose contact with his daughter, my cousin. She is only 8. I think given her father's racism, that having contact with her non-white family is especially important.

WWYD?

You seem too sensitive. If wearing a "blackface costume" for Halloween is the worst you can say about him, I'm not sure why you accuse him of being racist. Especially when he apparently married an AA woman, and has a biracial daughter.

Perhaps time to examine yourself?

PP--you are an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Just because you have a child with and even marry a black person--you can still be racist. It's the whole "but you're different-I don't even think of you as black" mind set. Storm Thurmond, former SC senator and biggest racist ever, had a black mistress for over 20 years.

It's incredible to me that there are posters on this thread who still believe the shopworn--"how can I be racist, I have a black friend/wife/girlfriend/cousin/half-brother!" You absolutely can be.

[Anonymous]

^That's "STROM" Thurmond, sorry.