That sounds like a serious crowd! I can't fathom my parents being in the same room, so yeah, I get that. Good for them for being willing to try, anyway.
I'm dealing with some of the same on facebook. No one I know is overtly racist, but I have a lot of cops in my husband's family, and a lot of otherwise reasonable people who just want so badly to believe that the world is color blind. I had to say something, because I just don't have the spoons to cope with debate about something so emotional.
If anyone were just straight out racist, I think I would unfriend them. It's so hard when it's family, or close family friends, but dude, if people with race privilege don't confront racism, then we are just leaving it to those who don't, which is beyond unfair.
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Date: 2014-11-25 11:09 pm (UTC)I'm dealing with some of the same on facebook. No one I know is overtly racist, but I have a lot of cops in my husband's family, and a lot of otherwise reasonable people who just want so badly to believe that the world is color blind. I had to say something, because I just don't have the spoons to cope with debate about something so emotional.
If anyone were just straight out racist, I think I would unfriend them. It's so hard when it's family, or close family friends, but dude, if people with race privilege don't confront racism, then we are just leaving it to those who don't, which is beyond unfair.