This whole topic disgustingly reminds me that ignorance and bigotry are just part of our civilization and sadly part of my immediate family.
My dad had an aunt that married a black man in the 60’s and she was completely disowned by her family. I didn’t even know about them until I was a teenager, some 30 years later. It was only after her dad died that she was invited to join our family reunion. I had to ask my dad who they were when they showed up because I had never met them and definitely didn’t realize they were family. It was pretty much forbidden to talk about them.
I’m glad she was the bigger person and didn’t hate and resent her brothers for their father’s failure to accept her interracial marriage. Yet my dad still to this day uses the N word. I love him, but don’t respect him at all. My half brother is the same way. Racist and misogynistic.
We had gay family members on that side who were mocked and ridiculed behind their backs, in front of us children. I have a cousin who waited until after my grandfather died before she came out because of that.
I thought we had moved past all of this when we elected our first black president, but boy was I wrong! Look no further than all of the republican transphobic ads that you see lately, it’s absolutely appalling and definitely hate speech.
Sorry for the long rant, I just can’t believe what this country has fallen to in a decade.
My dad had an aunt that married a black man in the 60’s and she was completely disowned by her family. I didn’t even know about them until I was a teenager, some 30 years later. It was only after her dad died that she was invited to join our family reunion. I had to ask my dad who they were when they showed up because I had never met them and definitely didn’t realize they were family. It was pretty much forbidden to talk about them.
I’m glad she was the bigger person and didn’t hate and resent her brothers for their father’s failure to accept her interracial marriage. Yet my dad still to this day uses the N word. I love him, but don’t respect him at all. My half brother is the same way. Racist and misogynistic.
We had gay family members on that side who were mocked and ridiculed behind their backs, in front of us children. I have a cousin who waited until after my grandfather died before she came out because of that.
I thought we had moved past all of this when we elected our first black president, but boy was I wrong! Look no further than all of the republican transphobic ads that you see lately, it’s absolutely appalling and definitely hate speech.
Sorry for the long rant, I just can’t believe what this country has fallen to in a decade.
