Racists in your family

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Didnt know that there are so many blacks in the east.

I'd actually like to know how many black people do live in Eastern Europe. For some reason I cannot picture it ever. Also with ginger people.

Inversely, my dad is probably the most racist in my family; my grandparents either are broad-minded, or I've simply never heard them be racist. Having a mix of Irish/Jewish/Northern English origins, histories rife with persecution (as the north of England would tell you especially ), might make them disinclined to be high and mighty about other races.

I am very biased towards people who I don't feel share my personal culture though, however this can apply to someone of any race, especially people who use violence as a means of kidding around (getting punched in the chest and being told "I'm only messin'" kindles hatred). My school has a major race problem too. African-British and Asian-British folk don't seem to like each other much here (not sure what that had to do with anything).

 

[ultimateownage]

My dad's homophobic, but then again he does hate pretty much everyone but himself.
He once complained about the Liberal Democrats for submitting to Conservatives, the Conservatives for being nice to rich people, Labour for failing to run the country, and everyone for not voting Labour back in.

 

[Ishamel]

My boyfriend didn't used to be racist, but since he moved to a certain area of London which has a large Muslim Arab/Lebanese population he is often heard to moan about 'those fucking Arabs.'
Reasons being:
-The burqa is ridiculous.
-The Arab shopkeepers nearby themselves are racist against white people, in the sense that when you go in there they stare at you and don't speak english until you get embarrassed and leave;
-The standard of safe driving, and driving without speakers on high playing bangra/rap is abominable among many young arab men.
-Trying to go down the street during Eid or -God forbid- drive your car is taking your life into your own hands because everyone is shouting and honking car horns all night and no-one is looking where they're going. Honking car horns at night is also genreally acceptable. Also shouting on the street. It's cultural!!

*end rant*
You could call it racism; you could call him multiculturally-impaired

 

[Snotnarok]

I've got a racist uncle and a bit of a racist friend. Though my racist friend is far from hate filled, it's more like ...how do I put this without coming off as an asshole...

His father is a cop and a majority of the people he has trouble with is [blank] so it's become a bit of a thing on them both I guess. I just ignore it, not hard to considering the amount of racist shit you hear on any xboxlive game.

 

[westhamhaz]

I would never make discriminations against someone because of there race but that doesnt mean I don't laugh at incredibly racist jokes...

 

[Broken Orange]

I think that my grandfather might hate illegal mexicans. Plus, my mother side of family is a bunch of rednecks. They must hate something, right? But they aren't really racist in a flamboyant way.

 

[Roofstone]

My mother's side family is a bit racist against People from the balkans and such. For some reason.. Oh well.

I myself am a little racist against die hard religious people, but then again I would think that it is less racism and more a problem with letting something controll their life?

Hmm..

 

[Berserker119]

My dad doesn't hate anybody, he just loves to make fun of them from time to time. For example, when he saw a grouping of natives for something or other on the news, he said "Hey look! It's a AA meeting!"

 

[Staskala]

Well, my grandmother hates pretty much every race on earth other than Whites, especially Turks, Blacks and Asians.
She makes negative comments whenever a black man appears on TV and often reminded me to "Watch out for those Negroes" when going to town.
Oh, and occasionally she will say great stuff like "Say what you want about Hitler, but at least the streets were clean back then". Interpret that as you will.

Other than that there are no racists in my family, although my father doesn't like Britains all that much, if you can count that as racism.

 

[SpaceGhostPoncherello]

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I know a lot of people here hate immigrants, which I can understand considering most I've met aren't nice people in the least (with exceptions, ofcourse) and they can't seem to handle their children at all. Strangely enough my family never really talks about them, but absolutely hate black people even though there's one black family in the neighbourhood.

But yea, I was wrong to say there's so little racism here, I didn't really think that reply through. I guess I just had the classic 'I hate you because of your skincolour' in mind.

 

[shadyh8er]

My parents went to Hawaii. After talking about the emotional visit to Pearl Harbor and how the hobos lived in tents on the beach (damn them!), my mom uttered the following phrase:

Mom: "And you know what else? I felt so safe because there were no blacks!"

Me: *insert biggest facepalm here*

Explanation: My parents grew up in Trinidad where there is a LOT of racial tension between blacks and Indians.

 

[kouriichi]

Im racist against sh*tty videogame players, who insist on ruining the game for the rest of the players.

I wish we could put them all in a camp with no internet and laugh as they go through the SEVERAL HORRIBLE STAGES OF DEATH DUE TO DEHIDRATION AND STARVATION, THUS FORCING THEM TO CANNABLIZE EACHOTHER TO SURVIVE.

Sorry about that caps, but i feel strongly about the subject, and nothing anyone says, does, or pays me will change my BLATENT HATE FOR A LOGICAL REASON AGAINST THE FOOLISH 13 YEAROLDS WITH THE SQUEELING VOICES THAT NEED TO BE SCILENCED LIKE AN ANIMAL IN A TRAP THAT NEEDS TO BE PUT DOWN! HAAAAAAAATE!! RAAAAAAGE!!!

 

[JSkunk22]

My mom is kinda racist, but not like she hates people or think less of them, she just says the silliest things sometimes and doesn't realize until after the fact that it's a teensy bit racist. As for the rest of my family? They seem fine, my brothers are both married to women of different ethnicities.

 

[EeveeElectro]

I wouldn't say they're racist, but they're incredibly ignorant. My close family all read tabloid papers, which is the most poisonous piece of bullshit news ever.
My brother is the "typical" man who reads The Sun; big and burly, tough, doesn't treat women very nice, etc.
Whenever the papers say something along the lines of, "Christmas lights are being banned, because they offend Pakistanis", "England shirts are being banned for the same reason", "Muslims are threatening to bomb the set of Eastenders" they instantly believe it, without question and will go on a rant how, "Those fucking Pakis don't like our Christmas lights, but they don't mind our benefits!!" and so on.
They sprout the most stupidest things.

 

[Aidinthel]

I don't think anyone in my family is racist, though I don't spend too much time with anyone beyond my parents and siblings. My grandmother once asked if my Spanish teacher was "one of them" but I'm pretty sure she was just curious.

Homophobia I'm less sure of, and frankly I'm afraid to find out.

I hate humanity in general.

So I guess it's not really racism if you hate everyone equally.

I have a new word for you guys.

misanthropy: "a generalized dislike, distrust, disgust, contempt and hatred of the human species, human nature, or society"

So you aren't racists, you're just misanthropes.

 

[Shockolate]

I'm somewhat racist against the Scottish.

Mainly because I'm one of them.

My genes suck.

I wish I was black.....

 

[The_Echo]

I'm sure most people have at least one family member like this (if not, you are one lucky bastard), so..
Post your horror stories about good ol' racist aunt Sally and jew-hating uncle Jim, and seek comfort.

Horror stories? I love racism. I think it's funny as hell.

I'm the 'racist' of the family, though such topics never really come up. However, I make tons of racist jokes all the time around my friends. It's not that I hate any particular group or anything. I just really love racist humor. Except for white jokes. First of all, I never really hear them, (Do they exist?) and second of all, the ones I have heard aren't that clever. :/

 

[MrShowerHead]

My dad, brother and almost ALL my RL friends are racists. Yeah, I sure know how to pick 'em....

 

[leon3789]

My father is very confusing. He keeps spewing racist comments and saying how much he hates black people yet he has a bunch of black people as his best friends....My grandmother is racist though, I cant go out past 6 pm because the big scary black people will rob me for my $3 in change :O

 

[jackknife402]

I just hate people calling everyone else a racist. I got turned down for a job because there was an indian(not american native, a real Indian.) woman who applied for the same position. She had half my experience and was somewhat rude, and they gave it to her not to be sued.

Fear of racism is a growing trend here in the US and I'm getting really sick of it. There's other countries out there have done WAAAAAY more terrible things to other races than the US, and are still doing terrible things. Hoewever, it's all our faults apparently. Like usual.