My son-in-law's mother called him up the other day to rant about "N****r Day"

[Aristus]

aka: Martin Luther King Jr Day.

When my step-daughter told me what she'd said, I told her "She's never, EVER welcome in this house!"

Fortunately, she's a continent away down in Georgia and not likely to visit any time soon. I knew she was white trash, but OMG! :wow:

My son-in-law was the rebel of the family; in other words, he rejected their hatred, their bigotry, their provincialism and their ignorance. If he hadn't, my step-daughter wouldn't have ever gone near him.

I'm still consumed with loathing for such a hag. :puke:

End of Rant.

[otherlander]

1. Uh...

wow. Just wow.

Hey, if you REALLY want to piss her off, tell her this: We named a day after a man who told us to be on the side of revolution. "These are revolutionary times... we must support these uprisings." :)

[BarenakedLady]

2. How horrible.

Yuck, yuck, and double yuck. My in-laws were a bit like that. Snide comments every now and again, use of horribly non-pc bigotted words. Made me so uncomfortable.

[QMPMom]

3. OMG. I hope that your son-in-law set her straight!

What a hag.

[Aristus]

9. Yeah, he did. I don't know what his exact words were, but my step-daughter

said he really put his mom in her place. I couldn't help picturing her in a clogged sewer during a flood; you know, her place.

[Redstone]

4. Be sure to let your son-in-law know that YOU are his REAL family, not that trailer trash.

Give him all the support you can.

Redstone

[Goblinmonger]

5. We must be related through marriage.

Though my family doesn't live in Georgia. Could have been my mother or brothers that said that. Yeah, we have lots of fun at get-togethers.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

22. Ditto...

My mother thinks that MLK Jr day is a waste of a National Holiday. She's so ridiculous. She still uses the N word. Or she calls African Americans colored people. :eyes:
Duckie

[Kutjara]

6. I still find it incredible that such people still exist.

It's like turning the corner and seeing a Stegasarus coming the other way. Such antediluvian attitudes have no place in the modern world.

[crim son]

7. Let me ask you a serious question. What's worse?

The hag you describe or my MIL, who (as I have described before) stood up at the dinner table in involuntary excitement as she admitted once working alongside a black person and "treating him just as if he were a human being" ? I just wish she were so openly nasty so I could keep her away from my kids, but I can't.

[QMPMom]

8. My MIL once called blacks "darkies". I think all the

blood drained from my face and I was ready to haul ass across the dining room table because she said it in front of the kids. My husband took one look at me and then launched into his mother before I could rip her larynx out.

Then we had the issue of painting kids in blackface for a Christmas play at church. She could not understand why this was wrong. A few years later my son got drafted into the church Christmas play. I was livid when all the kids marched in and my son was in blackface!

NEVER AGAIN did I allow him to participate. Nope. Not gonna happen, folks, is what I told them when they asked again.

[philosophie_en_rose]

10. I don't understand why the kids were in blackface?

Jesus may or may not be black, but Jesus in blackface? :wtf:

[QMPMom]

12. Not Baby Jesus. The Wise Men. I swear, little German kids

(it was the German-speaking Parish) all dressed up and looking like Al Jolson. She just didn't "get" that blackface for any reason is disrespectful.

[madeline_con]

14. That's just f'ed up.

Badly. Wow, I'm just amazed.... :yoiks:

[crim son]

11. That sounds familiar and I'd have been as enraged as you have.

All these years I've had to "debrief" my children after visits w/the MIL concerning what she's told them about jews, Jesus and the catholic church, about homosexuality, poverty, racism etc. It's gone on and on. When she interfered this past Thanksgiving re: our marital problems, after 17 years of marriage my STBE husband called her on her indiscretion for the first time! Now we're not speaking :eyes: Excellent.

[madeline_con]

13. Was she upset she got the day off, or not?

Or that MLK was being remembered? What was her damn problem with the day?!

[SeattleGirl]

15. Good Gawd, Aristus!

That's so disgusting. I'm glad your SIL escaped the negative effects of this woman.

[sakabatou]

16. There's a special place in hell, just for her

[GenDem]

17. My father-in-law was racist.

When it reared its ugly head, I reviled him.

We had a fresh air child (program generated from NYC to get city kids into the country in the summer) who came to our house every summer for 12 years. When she was about 10 or 11 she knew he was a racist, even though he never showed that ugliness in front of her. She just knew.

[reyd reid reed]

18. I really, really don't get people like that.

I just....I can't conceive of it. It boggles my mind. On a conscious level I realize that people like that exist...that they're out there somewhere, I just can't understand why and how people can think that way and still call themselves rational, intelligent human beings.

Then I get pissed off.

I'm glad the young man told her what's what. And I hope she takes it to heart and listens. She probably won't, but I like to hope...

[Archae]

19. One of my close relatives said this about MLK...

"That n***** caused the riots."
I said flat out to that relative, "You are totally full of shit, asshole." :grr:

I had another relative, who said, "I'm not racist, I have lots of friends who are n*****s and kikes!"
I told that relative to take her shit and go fuck herself.

[Guava Jelly]

20. A coworker of mine called it

Dead Ni__er day.
My jaw dropped.
The guy is a bigoted piece of shit!

[Kajsa]

21. It's despicable, alright.

Racism is alive and well.

That's why there is still a lot of work to do.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring
from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to
speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles,
Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.

- I Have a Dream

[rhino47]

23. She needs to get together with my daughter-in- laws mother.

She said that gays deserve aids and they should not get any healthcare or disability.
I was up front in saying to my son she is not welcomed in my house.

[jcrew2001]

24. Reparations = Stock Options

I've been thinking about the Reparations issue, and I think voters and Congress can be convinced of creating reparations if they look at slaves as workers that were denied a living wage and stock options.

Great American companies such as Microsoft, GE, and industrial revolution leaders provided their workers with stock options that made them rich and rewarded them for their sacrifice and hard work.

America in the 1700 and 1800s was built by slaves, even companies and buildings in NYC were built by slaves and many of those companies have paid out reparations.

Descendents of slaves deserve their payments for the work, sacrifice, blood, sweat, and tears that went into keeping the American economy going and preventing us to be conquered by Britain.

Slavery created a 2nd class citizenship of poverty, poor education, terrible schools, and a culture of disillusionment and submission which has endured since the civil rights movement, allowing more Blacks access to voting, eduction, and jobs.

Some critics of affirmative action say its based on racial preferences is illegal, well if a company is 100% white, and a minority cannot get hired, then that company is racially preferential to whites, so the argument about racial preferences does not work when most of the employees are white, because the company is racially preferential to whites to begin with.

[lizziegrace]

25. Had the same problem at work

while the words weren't actually spoken, it was very clear that the people I work with believe it's a very undeserved holiday.

[XemaSab]

26. As Chris Rock says

It's not like you have to do something Black on MLK day. :eyes:

Racist relatives: everyone's got em. :P

[noamnety]

27. I'd like this post better

if you didn't yourself use sexist and racist language in it.

Hag?
White Trash (As opposed to the "normal" kind of trash???)

A lof of language we use goes unexamined, and I'm not saying you are racist or sexist, but I am saying those terms are. If you want others to examine the roots of the language they are using, or actions like putting on black face, and the implications, then you might consider holding a mirror up to your own words from time to time.