What does your husband make of his family? Whose side would he have been on, had he not been having a barf-o-rama in the bathroom?
The Devil said, if you’re going to make mistakes like that, he wants his retainer back.
(Who knew the devil had an orthodontist?)
Not to be witless, but I only just got this.
Not to be stupid, but I didn’t get it. 'Splain, please?
jsgoddess, I would just have to stay away forever. You said you stayed away for years - what made you come back? I imagine it was to keep the peace, since it’s your husband’s family.
I’m sorry you had to deal with this, and I hope your husband feels better.
Marathons, 100-meter dashes… each a kind of… race.
Racist family members suck. I have so many I don’t even know what to do with them all. The worst ones are the ones who swear they aren’t racist. I generally just don’t dignify their absurd statements with a response – with the exception of my beloved grandmother, to whom I am close enough that I can basically say, ‘‘Why are you so prejudiced?’’ It makes my grandpa laugh a lot when I do that, because then she gets all defensive.
It’s good that your husband is not following in the family footsteps. I admire folks who can, you know, use their brains.
Sickle-cell anaemia?
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I like Green Giant niglets best…
Ah, no wonder I was confused. I took it as a comment on Kenyans always winning marathons, but I looked at a list of recent 100-meter dash winners and they all appear to be black as well. I never realized before just how prejudiced races could be.
And if thinking Tyler Perry sucks is racist, I’m changing my handle to David Duke.
So, you think that’s contagious? You and **River Hister **sure are a fun couple.
Not to be pendantic but sickle-cell appears in populations where malaria has recently been prevelant. Now, these areas are usually inhabited by black people, but not always.
Plus, what in the hell does sickle cell have to do with cleanliness?
I would have said it was, in fact, extremely racist and unacceptable behavior. Without prompt and thorough shaming, he won’t learn.
I’m not being racist or anything, but the conniving Jew is using the brute strength of the Black to oppress the Aryan races.
Obviously I don’t know anything about your relations, but it strikes me that they are intentionally attempting to be rude to you.
No matter how racist they may be, that should not be the issue at this point; any ordinary people not motivated by malice would understand by now how you feel about the subject, and avoid it.
Seems clear to me that they know full well how you feel, and are quite deliberately pushing your buttons, either because they dislike you or because they think it is funny to upset you (amounts to more or less the same thing). The “not to be racist …” preface seems intended merely to grind your nose in it.
My recommendation: if at all possible, cut off contact. If you don’t, you will in effect be their punching-bag, because there is no way you can force someone to act without malice towards you in their own home.
Ooh, ooh! Here is what to do. Buy SIL a DNA genealogy test for Xmas, have her take the swab and give it to you “to save her paying postage” and them switch the swab with one from a mixed-race acquaintance. Imagine her face when she opens the results.
Since everyone in the world is mixed race, all you need to do is get the genuine article and show her how much [insert unfavored race here] DNA she has in her.
Yes! My point exactly! She wasn’t being racist–you misheard her. She said NIBlets, not NIGlets.
And to think she lives in farming country–it’s sad to see someone so down on their own community and culture like that. Perhaps you could comfort her by telling her that genetically modified corn is increasing in popularity and is said to be cleaner than “organic” corn.
(I’m not getting the dirty bit–does she think the color comes off in the ball pit or what?).
I’d take a charley horse in my neck over that dinner table convo any day. :eek:
Learn what? That it really gets under jsgoddess’ skin when they talk all racist? That she’ll dance like their personal bleeding-heart monkey every time? I think they know already as she suspects they do it goad her.
He would learn there are consequences to boorish behavior, but only if there are consequences, like people leaving your home and refusing to having anything to do with you.
In this situation, I think just cutting off contact isn’t enough. You need to burn the bridges, too. Wait 'til next year, and when SiL opens her fat gob at the dinner table, dump the gravy boat over her head.
OoooOOOooh. I like this. You need to have some sort of explanatory rant, though, for when she’s sitting spluttering as gravy runs down her face.
