my parents are kind of like that too. i asked my mom what she would do if i dated a black guy and she said she wouldnt want me to. i also asked my dad what he would do if i, or my sister, were a lesbian and he said "i wouldnt disown you or anything but you wouldnt be bringing your damn girlfriends home." i just kind of shake my head and leave. its really embarassing when parents act like that and it makes me ashamed also. and i cant really say that our generation is any better. i hear people using the n word all the time. im very aware of the words i use and try not to say things like "gay" or "retarded" when talking about something dumb. but i encounter people saying things like that all the time. it does suck.

one time my boyfriend had a padiddle (one headlight out) and a cop pulled him over. didnt give him a ticket, didnt even take his license back. just told him to get it fixed. well my friends were driving to work (about a mile and a half drive from where they live) and they had a padiddle. the cop pulled them over, took his license back, ran his information and arrested him for driving on a suspended license. they never though about it because who would think that they would get pulled over in a mile and a half drive? and he had to get to work somehow. well anyways... stuff like that happens here all the time. 2 white guys will get in a fight at the bar and the cops just break it up. then 2 black guys get into a fight and they pepper sprayed the whole place! they tazered him and took him to jail for "fleeing" when he stopped and was being cooperative. its really amazing to me.