Anonymous
Post 01/29/2013 20:25     Subject: Crazy shit my mom says
Anonymous wrote: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.


That's so crazy, it almost makes me wonder if she's showing early signs of dementia. My MIL espoused some racist conspiracy theories when she had Alzheimer's, even though she had been a vocal and even courageous supporter of the Civil Rights movement back in the day. Really, really sad to see.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2013 20:24     Subject: Crazy shit my mom says
At 6 every morning, my mother would woke me up with, "only whores and prostitutes stay in the bed this long."
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2013 20:13     Subject: Crazy shit my mom says
Anonymous wrote:
My mom is also an old-fashioned not-a-racist. She thinks that hiring a person of color, having a polite conversation, or admitting that people of color can be hardworking and pleasant, all make her not-a-racist. Of course, she's the one who, as you heard about on a previous thread like this, said "It's so nice to see a black man taking care of his children!" Loudly. In a public enclosed space. As I dragged her away in mortification, she protested "What? I said it was NICE!"


Confession: I have very little exposure to black people and thus, most of what I "know" comes from tv, and that one black girl who was my college roommate for 2 months back in '94. So I could see myself thinking/saying something like that. The majority of black people I see are 1. security guards standing outside Marshalls or Ross or outside the bank, 2, black guys unloading boxes of food in the supermarket, who, if I ask if they know where Wheat Thins or something are, won't make eye contact and mumble,or 3 the clump of black kids on the trains talking loudly to each other and cursing a ton.

So I'd be thrilled to be exposed to and have the opportunity to become friends with black people who are ... different from those people.



PP Where do you live??? In a bubble? Do you work outside the home? Consider this: stop thinking about the color of ones skin and just consider them people, you may find that people will treat you the same.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2013 20:10     Subject: Crazy shit my mom says
Not my mother but my mother in law, she loves to try and relate to people so no matter what you do in life, she has also done the same, these things include a horse trainer/ owner, caterer, fashion designer. She also lives on a horse farm. Not really. It is nuts. She was a social worker and my DH and his siblings always call her out on it. So bizarre.

My own mother is so crazy I stopped listening to her.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2013 20:10     Subject: Re:Crazy shit my mom says
Anonymous wrote:Best thread in recent memory! And the "Mexico is in South America" poster? You can't make this stuff up!!!!


Ditto. File under Crazy Shit DCUMers said.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2013 20:03     Subject: Re:Crazy shit my mom says
Best thread in recent memory! And the "Mexico is in South America" poster? You can't make this stuff up!!!!
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2013 19:52     Subject: Re:Crazy shit my mom says
Anonymous wrote:I was venting to my mother about my infertility woes. To comfort me, she then told me of a woman she knew who had IF, took her friend's child's baby and raised this child as her own, when the child was a teen, the truth started coming out. blah blah. This went on and on.

Finally, I interrupted her and asked who this woman is. She would be my mom's age and I'd be sure to know her, or at least the daughter that was raised without knowing her bio-mom.

She tells me its from XYZ soap opera. She does this all the time so it's hard for us to figure out if the stories she tells us are of real people of soap opera story lines.


Okay I am crying from laughing so hard at this. Thank you for sharing.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2013 19:50     Subject: Re:Crazy shit my mom says
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:15:06, you do realize that the AA guys you see working are taking care of someone(s), right? Or do you simply prefer that they not work at all in order to conform with the knowledge you have gleaned from TV? And when you are at the supermarket, did you even bother to use your manners when asking?

How the hell can you even have a life like that in 2012? Seems like you'd have to go to some serious lengths to construct such a world. Can only imagine how the "black girl" ended up being your roommate for just two months....


To answer your questions: the roommate Jennifer became my roommate because her roommate felt she was too quiet and didn't party enough, and I felt my roommate partied too much in my room. So all four of us agreed the two would switch. She was VERY quiet - had one friend. The AA guys I see working may be taking care of someone other than themselves, or may not be - we have no way of knowing. Regardless though, I'm not seeing black guys out and about with their kids. I see more white adults with black kids (my guess is adoption, but don't really know for sure). Of course I use manners when asking someone for help. The reality is, there are lots of parts of the country where there aren't a lot of black people. San Francisco shoves almost all the black people in the Bayview/Hunter's Point neighborhoods, and other than that you'd have to go across the Bay to Oakland to see some color. In SF most everyone is white, Asian, or South American.


Move to PG County. Most of the chaperons on our field trips are black dads.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2013 19:45     Subject: Crazy shit my mom says
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"I saw on myface that Shelly had a baby"

Myface = facebook.
She's also called it Facelift.


Are we related?


Another sister here!

Mom (holding her new iPhone): I don't think my phone does the texting.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2013 19:44     Subject: Crazy shit my mom says
Mom: You know Michelle Obama always wears wigs!
Me: No mom, I think you're wrong about that.
Mom: No, I know! I can tell!!!!
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2013 19:41     Subject: Re:Crazy shit my mom says
"Facebook is making my hard drive run slower"

Which I completely agreed with so I could get her OFF of FB. Totally worked.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2013 19:39     Subject: Crazy shit my mom says
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"In SF most everyone is white, Asian, or South American."

South American????


What do you call Mexico and the countries below that? South America.


Are you kidding?



Mexico is in North America...
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2013 19:38     Subject: Crazy shit my mom says
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"In SF most everyone is white, Asian, or South American."

South American????


What do you call Mexico and the countries below that? South America.


Are you kidding?

Anonymous
Post 01/29/2013 19:37     Subject: Crazy shit my mom says
Anonymous wrote:Some of my mom's greatest hits:

1) my mom: Michelle Obama needs to stop wearing those muscle dresses
me: you mean, sleeveless dresses
my mom: yeah, showing all that skin
2) my mom: women are so lazy now-adays. They cant be bothered to even push out a baby. (this was after she found out that I would be having a c-section due to a prior surgery on my uterus) & preeclapmsia. She also said the same thing after my SIL had to have an emergency c-section due to her health issues.


LOL
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2013 19:36     Subject: Crazy shit my mom says
When I was 23, I told my mom I had a UTI. She said,"That's from dirty sex!"