I consider myself a non racist that is occasionally poked with the stereotype stick, and I mentally slap myself for being so mean in my mind. And I try my best to not be racist towards anyone.
But its kind of hard when my family members don't think the same way. I'm not saying that we should all have the same opinion, because that would be boring but I think sometimes we should keep our opinions to ourselves.
My mom loves Ethnic History topics (mostly African American history), but somehow every conversation she starts, always leads back to other races hating on black people.
I know that racism still exist, but some of what she says is just outrageous! Like I told her about how this woman was kind of rude towards me after happily chatting with one of her favorite students and my mom said that it was probably because I was black.
First of all, the lady was black and so was her favorite student. And the reason was probably because I was shy or something or maybe she didn't feel like ending her conversation to help me with my issue!
Anyway, my brother is a totally different issue. He has always been a creepy black power activist person. And everything he says always leads back to race! I mean its crazy! And he's SO mean! I asked him if he thought Angelina Jolie was prettier than Jennifer Aniston and he said "Honestly all white people look the same to me."
That is so RUDE!
And my dad! Oh ho ho ho! >.< He told me that if I married a European/Caucasian guy, that he didn't want me to visit him, and he wouldn't see my kids. (If I had any)
And my brother gets all upset when I say that I' not interested in dating men of my own race.
Its just...UGH!
Okay. I'm done *breathes*
But its kind of hard when my family members don't think the same way. I'm not saying that we should all have the same opinion, because that would be boring but I think sometimes we should keep our opinions to ourselves.
My mom loves Ethnic History topics (mostly African American history), but somehow every conversation she starts, always leads back to other races hating on black people.
I know that racism still exist, but some of what she says is just outrageous! Like I told her about how this woman was kind of rude towards me after happily chatting with one of her favorite students and my mom said that it was probably because I was black.
First of all, the lady was black and so was her favorite student. And the reason was probably because I was shy or something or maybe she didn't feel like ending her conversation to help me with my issue!
Anyway, my brother is a totally different issue. He has always been a creepy black power activist person. And everything he says always leads back to race! I mean its crazy! And he's SO mean! I asked him if he thought Angelina Jolie was prettier than Jennifer Aniston and he said "Honestly all white people look the same to me."
That is so RUDE!
And my dad! Oh ho ho ho! >.< He told me that if I married a European/Caucasian guy, that he didn't want me to visit him, and he wouldn't see my kids. (If I had any)
And my brother gets all upset when I say that I' not interested in dating men of my own race.
Its just...UGH!
Okay. I'm done *breathes*
May 26th, 2012 at 06:11pm