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[quote=Anonymous]I’ve been married for over 15 yrs and thankfully don’t see my inlaws very often (they live 1hr away and we see them 1/yr). My husband is white, I am not.  Over the years I’ve put up with their microagressions and stupid questions about my culture. I pretty much ignored it until we had kids. One of my kids has darker skin than the others. My MiL always comments on it. For example, she’ll say she’s  so brown she looks like he needs a bath. These comments were made when she was not old enough to understand. Recently, I lost it after she mailed us some bumper stickers with a very offensive racial stereotypes from my culture. She thought they were fun. It’s minor, but I also bugs me that she just got a new dog and named him Blackie. I recently pointed all of these things out to my husband because I’m concerned about my kids being around her now that they are older and picking up on her ways. He said I was being too sensitive and got more upset at me than he ever had. He can keep in touch with his mother all he wants, id never come between them, but don’t think she should be in my kids lives. How would you handle this? [/quote]

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