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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, all I’m reading from your post is that you don’t find your biracial nephew to be somehow black enough for your liking.

He’s not clueless. He’s grown up as a POC in even what you deem to be a “whitewashed” environment. He’s negotiated his colour his whole life, and has chosen not to be angry, or whatever it is you feel he should be. Everyone has a different lived experience, and can choose how they want to deal with it. Yes, systemic racism is a problem, but he can choose to deal with it in his own way, and that would appear by killing them with patience, tolerance, perseverance, and kindness.

Not everything in life needs to be an angry tirade in order to effect change. 
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DP, WTF??
I have no comment on OP’s situation but you are full of s***. Pointing out, rejecting and dealing head on with racism does not mean someone is “angry”
Who are you to tell someone that the way to deal with racism is for you to be kind. WTF are you telling racists that they need to do?
Do you tell raise victims that the way to deal with that is to be kind to their rapists???
At this point I think this entire thread was started by a troll intent on posting racist comments.
Sigh :( [/quote]

I don’t tell anyone how to deal with anything. Their experience is their experience, and to this point: it seems that nephew has not chosen to fill his life with anger. That is 100% his choice. His choices have nothing to Do with him being “clueless”. He might outright reject racism, but choose to deal with it his way. He is already living HIS life, in his skin, and, given OPs post, has experienced racism in his family. He’s decided not to get pissy, or turn into some angry activist type, and that is making OP livid. THAT is the problem. No one should dictate, or surmise they CAN dictate, how another person deals with their issues, be it racism, misogyny, homophobia, ableism, etc. OP is ticked right off that nephew isn’t following some kind of prescribed course of being angry about persecution, and not wanting to understand that is not HIS experience or way of dealing with racism. That is his right, an no more or less correct than what OP wants. [/quote]

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