Stop Calling Out Your Racist Uncle
Before the Thanksgiving your Racist Uncle showed everyone the photos and videos on his phone of his January 6th visit to the Capitol. He praised Kyle Rittenhouse as his new hero. He gloated about everything the Republicans in Congress are doing to “own the Libs.”
None of that was surprising: Last Thanksgiving, after the “summer of racial reckoning,” he bragged about putting his knee on the necks of Black people (rather, N-words, as he casually describes them) in some of his encounters as a police officer.
It’s no different than the verbiage your Grandpa used when speaking of Japanese people he fought in World War II (or any Asian person he’d seen), or how your dad talks about Vietnamese people he encountered during the Vietnam War. Your brother has also been using colorful slurs for Arabs and Muslims since 9/11, and it became much worse after his tours in Afghanistan.
You give them all the benefit of the doubt because they were in the military, fighting for our freedom, as the cliché goes. Grandpa was just a “man of his time” and your dad and brother have PTSD from their war experiences, so other psychological issues take precedence over their racial views.
