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LAGC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 11:06 PM Original message |
My Grandpa is Getting Increasingly Racist in His Old Age |
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Celeborn Skywalker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
1. My great-great grandma |
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Fridays Child (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 11:28 PM Response to Original message |
2. Bravo to your dad for calling him out! |
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Trajan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 11:34 PM Response to Original message |
3. Nobody sends me those ... |
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RichGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 11:41 PM Response to Original message |
4. I live most of my life up north... |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 11:44 PM Response to Original message |
5. I would not put up with racism from anyone, family included |
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southernyankeebelle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 11:52 PM Response to Original message |
6. Well am a grandparent I concern myself a social democratic. I don't believe |
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Old Troop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-09-11 05:55 PM Response to Reply #6 |
41. Interesting that you should say that about the military. When |
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TlalocW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 12:16 AM Response to Original message |
7. Not necessarily disown but one of them has written me off, and the others... |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 12:53 AM Response to Original message |
8. He'll never change his views if you and the rest of your family isolate him. |
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Mimosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 02:23 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Exactly. |
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enough (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 09:17 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Thanks Mimosa. (nt) |
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Beacool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 09:57 AM Response to Reply #8 |
15. Yep, family is family. |
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Badfish (543 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-09-11 09:42 AM Response to Reply #8 |
35. I disagree. |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-09-11 01:12 PM Response to Reply #35 |
39. And for sure he'll never change his opinion if isolated. |
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Badfish (543 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-09-11 01:19 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. How long do you try ? |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-09-11 09:02 PM Response to Reply #40 |
43. It won't end till I finally die myself. |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 03:32 AM Response to Original message |
10. ~sigh~ It's tough being Black. n/t |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 03:43 AM Response to Original message |
11. My great uncle... |
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Beacool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 09:53 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Are you sure he didn't want to vote for Obama due to his race? |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 11:32 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. ahem. you DO want a you-know-what... don't you? |
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Beacool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 06:27 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. I'm just asking. |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 05:27 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. Yes. |
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Beacool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 06:30 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Well, then he has some issues he needs to resolve. |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-09-11 11:14 AM Response to Reply #14 |
38. A good number of people didn't vote for Obama due to his race. |
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Beacool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-09-11 07:03 PM Response to Reply #38 |
42. Well, that's pretty silly. |
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Demeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 04:54 AM Response to Original message |
12. When a child can forgive his elders their failings and love them as they are |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 10:05 AM Response to Original message |
16. My Grandmother's boyfriend had the same issues. He actually disowned his daughter because |
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Empowerer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 11:35 AM Response to Original message |
18. I don't see what's racist about the email |
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Liberal_Stalwart71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 06:28 PM Response to Original message |
21. Perhaps it was latent racism that manifested itself after Obama was elected? |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 06:36 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. See my comment #23 ... similar ideas, but somewhat flipped. |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 06:35 PM Response to Original message |
23. I think I can explain this ... have seen it. |
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A Brand New World (803 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 08:34 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. I'm glad to read this interpretation. I deal with the same thing |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-09-11 06:14 AM Response to Reply #25 |
33. Ugh ... my grandmother was similar. |
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MessiahRp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 10:04 PM Response to Reply #23 |
30. +1 |
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Honeycombe8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-09-11 11:35 PM Response to Reply #23 |
46. That's what I was thinking, too. nt |
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bhikkhu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 08:47 PM Response to Original message |
26. Sad to say, but I think its common |
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Arkana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 09:12 PM Response to Original message |
27. My only living grandparents are my grandmothers. |
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riderinthestorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
28. Some of us actually have parents like this. And yes, I'd like to disown my mother. |
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MessiahRp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 10:08 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. My parents are like this... |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 10:01 PM Response to Original message |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-09-11 11:11 AM Response to Reply #29 |
37. Yup. n/t |
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Papagoose (361 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 10:58 PM Response to Original message |
32. My grandmom was a huge racist |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-09-11 09:13 AM Response to Original message |
34. Dementia often releases socially inhibited behavior. |
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zulchzulu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-09-11 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
36. Racists need to be reminded they are saying stupid shit |
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Mimosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-09-11 11:17 PM Response to Reply #36 |
44. Go to a nursing home. |
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Swede (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-09-11 11:19 PM Response to Original message |
45. Fox news sure ain't helping. |
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