This weekend, I was the recipient of some very grave news. My grandmother is a racist, her and that militaristic piece of shit she married after the death of my grandfather. She didn't used to be a racist, but apparently since she married the MOST EVIL MAN IN THE UNIVERSE she hates people of all colors and Canadians. They actually voted on Dancing With The Stars to get rid of Master P and Jerry Rice. Why? They are black. They won't go to restaurants where "Mexicans" work and they live outside of PHOENIX! Where does one eat to avoid Hispanics in Phoenix - White Only Castle, Nazi Corral, Wasp'donalds?
She used to be one very cool grandma. She owned and worked in one of Seattle's most popular guitar shops during the grunge era, she went to a Rolling Stone's concert with me and she had black and native American friends. Right now she just sucks. I mean, since she married the hate monger, she has pretty much dumped my family, but this racism shit takes the cake.
What to do? What to do? E-mail her photos and sayings from civil rights leaders? Seriously, how do you de-racist-ify a little old lady?
The bigger issue - these are the kind of people that are behind building a wall between US and Mexico to keep immigrants out. Dear god.
3 comments:
What you do is adopt a hispanic baby. Name it after her. Or, Sally Struther her ass and donate money in her name to the NAACP. Or, only refer to her in her Native American name, Dances with Hate. Or, as I have learned to do with my grandmother, ignore the stupid shit that comes out of her mouth and yell in your head "serenity now."
Seriously - I actually thought about sending her an e-mail telling her how thrilled Hubby and I are to be adopting an african baby, because we felt it was really unfair to keep inhabiting the world with more white folks like us. You and I are sharing a brain - aren't we?
Ahhh, yes. Hating the Canadians. Always a good use of personal emotive resources.
Your racist Grandma in Phoenix should get together with my Klepto Grandma, also in AZ. They could do some serious damage.
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