Today, I had to explain to my grandmother why, "What a nice singing voice! He doesn't sound black at all!" is not a compliment. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, because no one else was willing to, I had to explain to my uncle that he's white, that I'm not his grandfather, and that he's mentally challenged. FML
Today, I had to explain to my white girlfriend that dating me doesn't give her the right to call my mother the N-word. FML
Today, my racist grandmother was complaining that the new nurse at her nursing home is a black woman. I casually asked, "Is she cute?" I'm now out of the will. FML
Today, we had a group of friends over, as well as my grandma. She started talking about me when I was a kid, when I suddenly heard her saying, "Well, yeah, she wasn’t a beautiful child, not at all, she looked.… OK." FML
Today, I had to drag my grandmother out of a store because she went up to a black family and started apologizing for slavery. FML
Today, I was with my grandma waiting in a line. She only speaks Chinese and there was a black man in front of us talking his phone. My grandma tells me that the black man's really loud and annoying. The man finishes and turns and said fluently in Chinese, "What's wrong with loud black men?" FML
Today, my grandmother tried to lecture me about discrimination. This is the same woman who lies about her grandchildren's race, and tried to convince a Jewish person that the Jews were responsible for the Holocaust. FML
Today, my grandmother called me in a fit of panic because her new neighbors are black. So is my fiancé, whom she is supposed to meet tomorrow. FML
Today, I met my "grandson". Even though my son and his wife are both lily white, the child was clearly half-black. I pulled my son aside to have a word, but he said, "Her grandmother was black and she has recessive genes, it's really rare." I can't believe I raised this dumbass. FML
Today, my grandfather told me that I was ugly. When my mom found out, she said that, "Old people are allowed to tell the truth." FML
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tygerarmy 35
Grandparents always have the best racist compliments. My grandpa loves everyone, but hates every race. So he always says that person is a good insert racial epithet here after they leave.
lex1459 38
I once had to tell my mom that saying "you're out of your cotton picking mind" was racist.
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Comments (65)
CaliCassanova 14
Isn't racism just adorable!
zombiekiller52 24
Hahaha you she sounds like fun!
Jack_Me_Off_Jerk 5
you're gay
JadenSmithsDad 0
Most black people sing beautifully though...
syed121417 22
You can't fix stupid, OP. Just kidding. She grew up in a different time and while it had preached ignorance, if explaining to her doesn't work to convince, just let it be and make sure she doesn't say those things, at least.
Songstress 3
I'm not sure what was offensive here. Nothing she said indicated that she was racist. Elvis Presley was partly famous because he sang with the voice of a black man. It was just unexpected is all, maybe people need to stop looking for things that aren't there.
albertozeta_fml 9
When I heard for the first time "Smalltown boy" by Bronski Beat I thought the singer was more or less like Aretha Franklin. 100% failed and when I saw Jimmy Sommerville I couldn't believe it.
gottahandittome 2
a reference to Boston Legal? "Denny Crane..."
clue_me_in 20
It was kind of a rude comment. Not everyone reacts the same. I'm over people saying others need to get "thicker skin" as an excuse to say anything they want to people. It's not about being "PC", it's about common decency. Maybe if people stopped being so rude to each other, things would be better.
smackthathoe 4
segregation? where?