Today, I was stuck on a campus tour with my subtly racist mother who, in an attempt to seem open-minded, deemed it appropriate to refer to our black tour guide as "Sistah". FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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, I had no idea my mom was low key racist until I told her I was dating a black woman, and she told me that was fine, just as long as I didn’t do something silly like fall in love with her or let her distract me from finding a proper wife. Wow mom, just wow. FML
Today, my straight, white, Christian stepmother greeted my black friend with, "Hey my n****a!" He hasn't talked to me since. FML
Today, I caught my mom in the back row of one of my lectures, so I confronted her. Apparently she’s been doing this all year to make sure I’m paying attention in class and not making friends with the "wrong sort of people" (yes, she's a racist as well). I can't wait to move out of her house. FML
Today, I went to visit my overly-posh mother for the first time in many years. Upon arrival, she kicked me out because my outfit did not follow the same color-scheme as her decor. FML
Today, my mother continued her lifelong habit of talking to anyone who isn't white in extremely slow, exaggerated "caveman" English. She insists that she isn't being racist, but rather is helping. FML
Today, I introduced my mother to my new girlfriend. My mom made a very nasty comment about her in Spanish, not realizing that my girlfriend teaches Spanish at the local school. FML
Today, I had to slowly and very seriously explain to my mother why there is no 'White History Month'. I can't believe we are actually related. FML
Today, the mother of my most boneheaded student got upset when her “precious baby” miserably failed my class. She then threatened to accuse me of failing him due to racism, because I’m black, somehow overlooking the giant camera on the ceiling I installed for my own safety. I hate my job. FML
Today, I was busy going over wedding plans with my fiancé, when my mother called. Apparently, she wants me to "drop the joke" about this "fake engagement", because she was under the impression I was only dating a white guy to piss her and dad off, and was now getting carried away with it. FML
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Top comments
Crofty92 17
Hopefully people won't assume you're a racist just because your mother is.
sdroze1389 31
Lol the worst part is you look racist by proxy now. just say she's off her meds and hope for the best.
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Comments (71)
tfriend3 15
Thankfully her views haven't influenced your behavior. Still, it had to be pretty embarrassing to be around her during the tour. Hopefully the others in attendance didn't judge you based on her actions. Sorry OP!
anticulas 12
They come from a different generation. Things like this were condoned and encouraged. They likely won't change, and if they do, old habits die hard and slow.
sammyjanette 17
I hate when people do ignorant crap like that. The guide should have responded with a hillbilly accent in turn, but of course she would have probably lost her job for that. Instead people have to take that kind of ignorance just to keep their jobs. Disgusting.
anonymousguy1569_fml_fml 12
I know she's your mother but didn't you at least take her to one side and tell her to stop?
ylime23456 18
I feel your pain OP my dad's like that except he doesn't try to seem open minded, he just tries his best to be an asshole.
LuneeTune 15
Not sure where the "subtly" racist part was.
ThatOneLazyChick 9
Oh, God....that's embarrassing
Kergami 18
How sad is that, I wonder where your mother even got that from?
stargirl_95 24
I hope you sat your mother down and explained to her that what she did was wrong. If that's subtly racist then what's openly racist?
Levvy 22
At least she was doing it in an (awkwardly, misguidedly) friendly way. Still cringe-inducing, but sociable racism is better than outright hateful racism, even if they're both still bad!