Racist grandparentsIt Came From Planet Aylia says: "My husband's mad Auntie Joan accused the man seven doors down of stealing her milk as he was the first black neighbour she had. She doesn't even get her milk delivered." Tell us about casual racism from oldies.
Thanks to Brayn Dedd who suggested this too
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 27 Oct 2011, 11:54)
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My parents weren't racistI don't think there were any foreigners in the north of Scotland in those days, so it was never an issue, and (with glorious unconscious hypocrisy) racism was held to be more an English thing. Rather, they were suspicious and mistrustful of people from the next village. They spoke funny - almost exactly the same, but with the minutest differences to discomfit you; they had bizarre customs (again, 99.999999999% the same), and they just weren't proper. Childhood bicycle jaunts over there would entail ominous looks and pregnantly-meaningful warnings about "them" - "they're droll ower there."
Those were more innocent days.
(, Sat 29 Oct 2011, 10:33, Reply)
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