60 year old Mormon discretely, but not discretely asking me if my parents were okay with my brother marrying a black woman?

Is that Mormon racism or just him being [from] Kentucky?

When I was asked this question, the door in the room opened buying me time to craft a response. I ultimately responded, “Were you fine with your uneducated son-in-law teaching your aimlessly wandering, unmotivated 16-year-old son how to use a gun?”

I don’t think my question sunk in with him when I responded to his nonsense. He just got the message not to talk race issues with me. M



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That's a very intimate question to ask someone who is just a coworker. I don't think that it necessarily indicate racism, but perhaps more curiosity about how an older (and perhaps more conservative) generation is responding to changing times. You could just respond lightly, or give a non-answer, i.e. "Everyone in my family is doing well, how is your family?" I wouldn't report it unless the pattern of overly familiar questions persists. It sounds like he has more than enough problems, and that the situation will get sorted out in time without you having to lift a finger.



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If he's at least a fourth-generation Mormon, or maybe even third-generation, his question was probably influenced by his Mormonism. If not, it's probably a regional thing, though everyone in the region obviously doesn't deserve to be painted with the same brush.

>> Kentucky trash <<

Stereotype much? Jeez!

¿Porqué no los dos?

To echo what others have said, this sort of casual racism can't be ascribed to just one area of the country. It's everywhere. I went to high school in a suburb of Tacoma, WA, where multiple cars in the student lot proudly wore confederate flags. And my grandparents lived a mile down the road from the Aryan Nations compound before they were booted from Idaho.