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On holidays such as this it is common for friends to invite co-workers or other acquaintances to dinner if they are far away from their own families (or don't have family).
Do you have a racist family member who would be offended to sit at the Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner table with an outsider from another race?
A relative that is a racist is a tiny bit different than having someone of another race sitting with you at the table. Yes, I have to admit, my husband is a racist, but we have had black friends and he would not be offended at all if we were sharing a table with someone of another race.
Now, if what the OP meant was bigots, we all have family members who are bigots, in fact we all are to some degree. We have a foster daughter than is a lesbian, hubby loves her, we vacation with she and her partner every year and talk to them weekly, but he still makes horrible remarks about lesbians when he isn't around them.
Yes, there are some conservatives in my family. It saddens me to hear them talk negatively about people other than white.
Especially when it's about our US president.
for heavens sake, not all conservatives are racist and there are many racists and bigot who are Democrats. The two do not mean the same and the Op didn't ask us about conservatives, but about racists...
It is important to keep our neighborhoods European-American and we are not shy about it. Our schools are high performing and our neighborhoods are safe. Luckily, many wealthy liberals reside in the area, unknowingly keeping housing prices high enough to dissuade "diversity" to move in and spoil things.
Unfortunately, I live in Philadelphia, so I am surrounded by White trash and ghetto Blacks on a daily basis.
I think you might be surprised at how many black people are educated and solidly middle class these days. They have similar values to yours, want the same for their kids, have gone to school and hold responsible jobs that they got on the basis of their talents.
I think we all detest low lives, of whatever color.
There is an interesting 5 minute on-line test of your "implicit" unconscious racial judgments that is part of a Harvard research project. It also has tests for ageism, homophobia, all kinds of things. It's very revealing.
I think sometimes you need to look at folks in the context of their generation. I would say my Mother was very racist, but she has mellowed out significantly. She has African-American friends, and even dated a black man recently.
My grandpop was from North Philly (when it was Irish) and my grandmom from SW Philly (when it was Italian). I couldn't walk those streets today. Same goes for the town I grew up in, section 8 and de industrialization turned it into a gang infested hellhole.
It is much easier to just move to an expensive suburb, where the residents are homogenous and culturally similar.
Preferring to live in low-crime white neighborhoods with safe, high-performing schools is now "racist". I am a racist in contemporary terms, but commit no acts of violence against "minorities" and work 40 hours a week and relax in my "whitopia". Meanwhile, non-racists in our big cities murder, rob, and rape every day, yet the liberal media tells the people "racists" are a danger to society.
Thankfully, most of the gun owners in this country are racist and loyal to their European heritage. They need these guns to protect themselves from the "non-racist" hordes that will be looking for plunder to loot when the SNAP cards aren't magically refilled one month, as our national debt continues its rapid ascent.
My father is from North Philly, when it was primarily Jewish. What a craphole that neighborhood is today.
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