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raceism, my mom n my best friend
im in a white family, and my mom is raceist. my best friend is black, n i showed my mom my group picture of before homecoming, and she was like omg who is that n poined to her n im like ..thats sammy my best friend. now she doesnt trust me at all and keeps askin if shes comin whenever i go somewhere. im staying friends with her wether my mom likes it or not, but what can i do i hate this? i dont see anything wrong with people from different races bein best friends and neither does sammy. only my mom does. im 14/f shes 15/f
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I understand where you are coming from. My husband is racist,I however, am not. Try talking to your mom. Maybe she had a bad experience with a different race which made her to come to feel the way she does. She might have been brought up to feel that way. It's hard when you are the one in the middle basically having to chose between your mom and your best friend. Try coming to a comprise with your mom. Ask to meet her and to see that isn't a bad person. If she did have a bad experience with a different race then maybe you can prove to her that not everyone is the same. I hope this helps. I wish you the best of luck with your mom and your best friend.
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Its sad how things like that are happening. There isn't so much you can do to stop your mom being racist. I don't know if your mom is stubborn at all but my dad is and he is kinda that way too, only sometimes. I try to talk to him, it doesn't change his view. I would say try talking to your mom about it. Everyone is equal and there is nothing wrong with being friends with someone who is a different race. So I hope everything works out.
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Sadly enough, People who are rasict to other races are always those who grew up to believe the southern white people always mantain a higher standard then any other race. As so, this is the reason this world has war. You need to let your mom know that you are hanging out with sammy, wither she likes it or not. The fact of the matter is not that you cant hang with sammy but to show your mother that we arent living in the 70's anymore, or before that. That the rasict period already left us and she needs to let it leave her aswell. What shes doing/saying is wrong on many levels, and she needs to learn to accept people and set a better example for her daughter/children.
Talk to her about it. Let her know it isnt right, and that your right, things worth it in life are things worth fighting for.
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