Stockton209SS said:
MENTIROSO! YOU JUST SAID MANY MEXICAN PARENTS DON'T LIKE BLACKS, HOW WERE YOU NOT RAISED LIKE THAT!?
FORTUNATELY FOR ME MY PARENTS WERE RAISED DURING ALOT OF CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTS AND WHEN MECHA WAS REALLY ABOUT SOMETHING.
SO THEY UNDERSTOOD AND KEPT AN OPEN MIND ON THINGS. BUT MY GRAND PARENTS WERE A DIFFRENT MATTER. MY GRANDPA NEVER HAD A PROBLEM DEALING WITH BLACK FOLKS. HE DID CONSTRUCTION AND OWNED PROPERTY IN OAKLAND AND REFERRED TO THEM AS "PARTNERS" SINCE THAT'S WHAT THEY OFTEN CALLED HIM.
BUT WHEN IT CAME TO HIS KIDS HOOKING UP WITH ANYBODY BLACK, THAT WAS A NO-NO IN HIS AND MY GRANDMA'S BOOKS.
ESPECIALLY SINCE ALOT OF MY DAD'S SIDE ARE LIGHT SKINNED AND TALL.
NOT EXACTLY RACIST BUT PREJUDICED.