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Originally Posted by divine1966
Him not saying your parents are racists doesn’t mean he didn’t always think that.
You said over the years they made unthinking comments about his culture as well as questioned his intelligence. It doesn’t sound like healthy debates to me at all.
Your husband probably continued seeing them because he felt obligated as it’s family. But I don’t blame him for having enough of it. Do you think he has no rights to feel that way?
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They’ve made few comments about his race and culture. Once my mom said Hispanic and he corrected her and said he was Latino. The term Hispanic is offensive to him and he cleared that with my mom. My mom once said to him that she doesn’t know how she would feel I became catholic when she has told me she wouldn’t have a problem with it. To show you my mom’s ignorance, she once said “He doesn’t consider himself a minority does he?’. She doesn’t know the definition and felt that minority meant “lesser”. She didn’t want him to feel lesser. Most conversations with them are about politics. What we think about the governor, are we going to vote for this...My husband is a deeply religious and my mom-church going dad tried to quote scripture with him. If I heard my parents poking at his culture or religion, I would have said something. All of these years I’ve seen political debates. We have distanced ourselves from them because being around them and their ignorance is unnerving. My husband is a very blunt person. He has told me some things other family me ever have said were racist and I agreed. He never told me my parents were racist but since that day he has been adding up things they have said or done and says that is was all racist. We were late one day when my parents needed to borrow my car to get to an appointment and my dad got mad. That was racists. I have called out racism when I have seen it. A friends dad once asked my what my husband was “como esta-ing about” and I called him out. I am heartbroken. I know I have made mistakes. He absolutely has every right to feel this way.