My Grandpa is Getting Increasingly Racist in His Old Age [View All]

[LAGC]

First of all, he's not my biological grandfather, he's my mom's step-dad. So at least he's not related by blood.

But he has this terrible habit of sending everyone in the extended family these off-colored joke e-mails.

Well, today he crossed the line with my dad, and my dad usually votes Republican.

His "joke" of the day was an e-mail that started out innocent enough: "Wonder why its so cold outside?" and had a picture of American Revolutionary war troops camping out in winter. At first I thought it was going to be some jab against global warming.

Then you have to scroll down and it says: "Because our Founding Fathers said it would be a cold day in hell before a black man became president."

My dad "replied to all" and called him on his racist bullshit and told him he was going to block his future e-mails if he keeps it up.

I already knew better than to give him my new e-mail address, so I didn't see it coming. But I think this could be a rallying moment, to turn the whole extended family against him for his right-ward drift ever since my grandmother passed away. He's becoming increasingly isolated and surrounds himself with some very conservative old white fogeys at his Rotary Club meetings who are stuck in the past and can't live down the fact that we have a Black president. I'm tired of putting up with his antics.

Do any of you have grandparents like that, that you'd just like to disown?