Racist Parents Question

[PhuturePriest]

A little British, a little Scottish. But yeah, I'm so white I reflect the sun. And I'm not kidding.

 

Everyone else in the family is pretty white except me. One family member is pretty much neon-white, and my mother is, too. I'm technically white-looking, but it's a tan color, and I never get sunburned.

[HisChildForever]

Everyone else in the family is pretty white except me. One family member is pretty much neon-white, and my mother is, too. I'm technically white-looking, but it's a tan color, and I never get sunburned.

 

Neon-white, I like that LOL. I burn really bad, I typically get a fever along with it. smh

[dUSt]

Ignoring the issue, in my opinion, is wrong. Racism is a sin. By not helping your parents overcome this, you become complacent with that sin.

 

We can also sin through our inaction to correct evil.

 

Fight moral relativism. Battle evil. Repel sin.

[Stella Matutina]

I didn't mean ignore as in "do not ever try to combat your parent's racisim", I was thinking more of the immediate question - as in "what do I do if I fall for -insert other ethnicity here-".

 

Racisim is of course wrong, but how many parents are going to seriously listen to their sixteen year old son when it comes to patterns of thought that have been ingrained in them for decades. I thought that I could change my parents when I was a teenager. I couldn't have been more wrong!

 

Pray for them. Charitably correct them when they are obviously wrong or saying hateful things. Otherwise, there is not much that can be done about the matter. That is all I'm saying.

[PhuturePriest]

Neon-white, I like that LOL. I burn really bad, I typically get a fever along with it. smh

 

Jeff Dunham is a genius like that (Or was, anyway). ;)

 

I haven't had a real sunburn in at least six years. I just don't get sunburned because my skin is so awesome. :P

 

Ignoring the issue, in my opinion, is wrong. Racism is a sin. By not helping your parents overcome this, you become complacent with that sin.

 

We can also sin through our inaction to correct evil.

 

Fight moral relativism. Battle evil. Repel sin.

 

So how do I get them to see that Mexicans and interracial relationships are not evil?

[dUSt]

So how do I get them to see that Mexicans and interracial relationships are not evil?

 

Print out the church teaching on the matter and leave it where they'll read it.

[dUSt]

http://www.arch-no.org/files/12.15_pastoral_final.pdf
 
and
 
CCC 1935

"The equality of men rests essentially on their dignity as persons and the rights that flow from it: Every form of social or cultural discrimination in fundamental personal rights on the grounds of sex, race, color, social conditions, language, or religion must be curbed and eradicated as incompatible with God’s design."

[dUSt]

And before you dismiss child to parent correction, referencing Church teaching worked on my dad when I was a kid... He always made me mow the grass on Sundays until I showed him an old Baltimore Catechism saying it was sinful to work on Sundays, and another part of the catechism where it said it was ok to disobey your parents if they want you to do something immoral.

[PhuturePriest]

http://www.arch-no.org/files/12.15_pastoral_final.pdf
 
and
 
CCC 1935

"The equality of men rests essentially on their dignity as persons and the rights that flow from it: Every form of social or cultural discrimination in fundamental personal rights on the grounds of sex, race, color, social conditions, language, or religion must be curbed and eradicated as incompatible with God’s design."

 

Perhaps I'll go on their computer and "accidentally" leave it on that quote in the Catechism with that particular part highlighted.

 

And before you dismiss child to parent correction, referencing Church teaching worked on my dad when I was a kid... He always made me mow the grass on Sundays until I showed him an old Baltimore Catechism saying it was sinful to work on Sundays, and another part of the catechism where it said it was ok to disobey your parents if they want you to do something immoral.

 

I don't believe it's sinful to work on Sundays, though, is it?

[IcePrincessKRS]

http://www.arch-no.org/files/12.15_pastoral_final.pdf
 
and
 
CCC 1935

"The equality of men rests essentially on their dignity as persons and the rights that flow from it: Every form of social or cultural discrimination in fundamental personal rights on the grounds of sex, race, color, social conditions, language, or religion must be curbed and eradicated as incompatible with God’s design."

 

I was going to quote that, too.

[Era Might]

I don't think discrimination is necessarily unnatural, though not ideal. Having racial preferences is not fundamentally different from having borders. It's what makes immigration such an awkward issue in modern times, this theory of multiracialism and yet still a world order rooted in division and separation. I was reading an article the other day about Japan's immigration policy, which is influenced by their homogeneous conception of themselves. They actually tried to pay foreign-born Japanese to go back to Latin America:

 

 

 

The program is limited to the country’s Latin American guest workers, whose Japanese parents and grandparents emigrated to Brazil and neighboring countries a century ago to work on coffee plantations.

 

In 1990, Japan — facing a growing industrial labor shortage — started issuing thousands of special work visas to descendants of these emigrants. An estimated 366,000 Brazilians and Peruvians now live in Japan.

 

The guest workers quickly became the largest group of foreign blue-collar workers in an otherwise immigration-averse country, filling the so-called three-K jobs (kitsui, kitanai, kiken — hard, dirty and dangerous).

 

But the nation’s manufacturing sector has slumped as demand for Japanese goods evaporated, pushing unemployment to a three-year high of 4.4 percent. Japan’s exports plunged 45.6 percent in March from a year earlier, and industrial production is at its lowest level in 25 years.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/business/global/23immigrant.html?pagewanted=1&_r=4&

 

 

There was an episode of the Cosby show where Vanessa brings home her fiance, this old janitor, and Cliff and Claire aren't too thrilled about it. If we are going to embark on this project of a race-less society, then I think it has other implications...if we are going to abolish divisions of race, then I think class has to be abolished too, as well as borders, nations, etc. If we are going to admit the practical existence of class, then I think, on some level, there has to be a practical leeway for mild forms of racism/discrimination/xenophobia/whatever you want to call it, though virulent forms are certainly a serious problem that is rightly overcome.

 

Anyway, I'm bored and just stirring the pot.

Edited July 10, 2013 by Era Might

[Guest]

They don't think they're racist, so I think it's one of the cases where they're racist and don't realize it, thus meaning it's not a mortal sin.

How could they think they're not racist ? They don't approve of you being with someone other then your own skin color. That's about as racist as it gets. Anyhow prayers for your sistuation. I know its not your fault. If I were you I would just tell your parents they are racist straight up. Mabey show them this thread and the Churches teaching. Peace.

[PhuturePriest]

How could they think they're not racist ? They don't approve of you being with someone other then your own skin color. That's about as racist as it gets. Anyhow prayers for your sistuation. I know its not your fault. If I were you I would just tell your parents they are racist straight up. Mabey show them this thread and the Churches teaching. Peace.

 

Is this a scheme to get me to be banned from Phatmass? 'Cause that's what's going to happen if I do that.

[Seven77]

FP,

 

 

 

[Seven77]

FP,

 

 

 Do you really think that your parents will not accept any decent young lady, no matter what she looks like? How do you know this? I think that if you're worried about a possible situation in the future, you should just pray that everything works out. Like others have said, cross that bridge when you get to it.

 

Peace.

 

(ps: it is very sad that people think the way that your parents do)

Edited July 10, 2013 by Seven77