re: #657 HappyWarrior

Yeah my maternal grandfather was much the same way. He was upset with my mom like your Dad was when mom befriended a black girl. At the same time though, he didn’t object to being Richard Loving’s foreman while the Lovings awaited word on their case. He wasn’t a KKK/Neo Nazi or even an alt-right type racist but he definitely had prejudices. Then again, his wife, my grandma and only survivign grandparent has grown to like Obama a lot since then so maybe he would have been okay. My dad’s parents were gone by Obama’s election and my Dad’s Dad even by Reagan’s time but Dad’s mom loved HRC and their liberalism was probably more closer to what I practice than my mom’s parents though I have some of mom’s folks blue collar edge.

My dad never would have been KKK or NN. And he wasn’t a hateful person. He came to America when he was a young child (in something like 1912). We had more family killed in the Holocaust than survived as the vast majority of both sides of my fathers family tree stayed in Europe.

That said, prejudices come with that age. He didn’t like MLK, thought he was an agitator. I was pretty young at that time so it’s not like we had in-depth discussions about racism; I was simply too young. I never heard much from my mother on either side so if she had racist ideas, she never expressed them (and for the record, my mom was born in like 1897 and was 10 years older than my dad. FYI, my dad was my biological grandfather who adopted me when I was born, hence the big age difference between my mom and dad and myself.)