Reply to Crazy shit my mom says

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "Crazy shit my mom says"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mother was visiting the city from her upper-middle class suburbs in which she's lived for 40 years (she is about 60). We are white, and in a car, at an intersection. A black man carrying a long (non-fold up) umbrella strides across the street in front of us.

My mom: Oh, there are a lot of those where we live.
My sister and I: A lot of what? A lot of black people? 
My mom: Black people carrying assault rifles down the street, yes
My sister and I: In your GATED senior community of upper-middle class people? 
My mom: Yes
My sister and I: Dad, do you find this to be the case? 
My dad: No. I have no idea what your mother is talking about.
My sister: Mom, that was an umbrella, not an assault rifle
My mom: well, it looked like an assault rifle
Me: Mom, have you ever seen an assault rifle in real life?
My dad: No she hasn't.

I feel like it'd be a bit of an understatement to say my mom's a racist. [/quote]

She definitely has eyesight issues, too.  [/quote]

Maybe dementia?[/quote]

She has a HOST of issues. Denial is the biggest hurdle though. Because if she came right out and said, "Yeah I think all black people are thugs and are walking around with guns and can't be trusted not to kill us," then we could just dismiss her as a racist. But despite many, many examples of blatant racism she will insist she is not racist. Of course ask if she has any friends who are not white, and she will say "I had a long conversation with the man who came to do landscaping," and then she will reveal that she could barely communicate with him due to his thick Spanish accent. And she wonders why I talk to her less than once a month.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics