Can I just say that I'm not surprised the "We're voting for the nigger" thing happened in PA? Cause I'm not. Thanks.
People are weird about their racism. My father likes to tell the story about his mother...she had this habit of taking in strays. One of them was a black lady whose husband was abusing her who ISTR was somebody in the family's maid at some point. Anyway, my grandmother moved her into the house with the family, where she lived for the rest of her life. However, she was quite prone to spouting off about black people at any given time, so my father used to say to her, "Well, what about her, she's black", and she would get all annoyed and say, "Not her. She's DIFFERENT".
And then he would bring up about a billion other black people she knew, and she'd say the same thing every time.
So basically anyone she knew PERSONALLY was exempt from her bad opinion of black people, and she was fine with getting to know any individual black person and having them become exempt. It was just the Strangers Out There.
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People are weird about their racism. My father likes to tell the story about his mother...she had this habit of taking in strays. One of them was a black lady whose husband was abusing her who ISTR was somebody in the family's maid at some point. Anyway, my grandmother moved her into the house with the family, where she lived for the rest of her life. However, she was quite prone to spouting off about black people at any given time, so my father used to say to her, "Well, what about her, she's black", and she would get all annoyed and say, "Not her. She's DIFFERENT".
And then he would bring up about a billion other black people she knew, and she'd say the same thing every time.
So basically anyone she knew PERSONALLY was exempt from her bad opinion of black people, and she was fine with getting to know any individual black person and having them become exempt. It was just the Strangers Out There.
Bigotry and fear are weird, weird things.