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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who is the product of an interracial relationship that extended family members did not support, please call your MIL out. And tell your husband to do it, too.

It's unacceptable in this day and age. If you don't call out such antiquated ideas, I'd consider someone complicit. "Old" is not an excuse when you live in the present. [/quote]

I agree with this poster, but be warned the waves you will make.  It could be the end of your marriage or DH's relationship with his mother or other family issues.

I'm in an interracial relationship with family estrangements so I'm a little prejudice from personal experience.  Your DH is complicit but allowing her the excuse of "old."  Tell him as such.     [/quote]

+1. I have an uncle who is a complete racist (among other things). For most of my life, the family’s attitude was to just ignore him. As an adult, I avoided him when possible. But since Trump, he has gotten so brazen about it. I couldn’t ignore it any longer and started correcting incorrect things he said that we’re based on bigotry, telling him what I found unacceptable, telling him to keep his comments off my FB wall, etc. It all blew up. His kids, who I thought knew better, rallied to his side when people (not just me) started calling him out on all his BS. It’s caused some big rifts. It sucks, honestly, but in the end I’d rather lose them all than for my kids to think for even a second that I find that kind of language and behavior acceptable.[/quote]

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