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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had a similar experience to this. A woman married into my family (white) -- she is Mexican American. We lived in a part of the country with a very large Latino population, as well as a lot of Native American people.

She has said many things to me that are racist both towards other Latino people (she looks down on Latinos with darker skin, those who don't speak English or who speak a version of Spanish she considers inferior to what she speaks, and people from certain other countries) and towards Native American people. I spoke up the first few times she said these things and she told me I didn't get it because I was white. Now I just avoid her and I don't let me kid play with her kid because I don't want those attitudes rubbing off on my kid. Both because I think they are ugly and wrong, and because if my white kid said the stuff she said, people would rightly think my kid was a virulent racist.[/quote]

This stuff eventually put me permanently off my own mom. She and my (late) dad were white, she left him in the early 70s to have an affair with and marry her very $$$ Jewish boss and she took his name. She came from a VERY racist background (she was a grad of a white flight HS town in the 50s) and I just grew up with her saying all these horribly inappropriate things, but I just didn't know any better.

My brother married a "proud Latina" (her words, not mine) but she went to a southern U and was her sorority president, she presents as white as a girl can be, but wow, my mom went to town on her. I didn't ever watch the Modern family show until recently, but those parts when Shelley Long was at the wedding getting drunk and shouting "I'm Gloria I spread my legs ay yi yi !!!!" while being dragged out of the venue doors was close.

My mom's description of all the relatives visiting for the birth of my twin nieces was some narrative about how they all came from Mexico and Puerto Rico to sleep on the floors (because they like it) and practically made it sound like they were all on lawn chairs in front of the house shooting guns in the air and chasing chickens around. ("You know, because they like that")

My mom's just a bad person. She's not a good person. [/quote]

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