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hollysmom
(5,946 posts)Viking12
(6,012 posts)Obviously, you've heard some version this refrain before, "I might post and retweet all sorts of racist posts, but that doesn't make me a racist. It's a joke. Lighten up."
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)My mother in law use to admit to being a racist. She would would say terrible things about blacks and Jews. So she dies and at her funeral all these people show up from the factory she worked in and they would tell stories how she helped them in their life, like a black woman who was sick for such a long time and my MIL took two buss to her house once a week to cook for her family and clean her house or a Jewish immigrant who could not afford nice things talk about the fancy cakes (MIL was a wonderful baker) that MIL would make for her when there was a holiday or a birthday so they could have something nice. Could she have been a closet nice person? Maybe it was to get along in her racist family and it just became habit to talk like that, it was weird. I don't know why she had to talk like that in front of me though, but hey, I kind of saw through it before she died and talked her about all the good things I saw in her while she was in pain to distract her.
seattledo
(295 posts)are the least racist. I lived in Seattle until I was seven then moved around the south quite a few times with a foster family that moved a lot between military bases, and I met a lot of people that said they were racist. Not a one of them treated me badly. Several helped me with school, including a neighbor that had a Confederate flag on his house taught me how to read. He probably spent five hours a week on average with me for nearly two years helping me. He ran an auto repair shop, and helped a lot of minorities with repairs they couldn't afford. After moving back to Seattle, I see a hell of a lot more racism, but I've never heard anyone here call themselves a racist. It's bizarre. I guess the people that admit their biases are better people than the ones that don't.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)He kept saying it even as they locked him up for bombing a church in Birmingham. Since then, I have never believed a conservative who says they are not a racist.
Sean Hannity not just a racist, he panders to racists for his living.