My dad, a racist hillbilly told me...

[sheshe2]

Grampa folded.

Sweet.

[Marthe48]

1. Who couldn't love that lovely little child?

(meaning the 3 year old)

[mopinko]

2. grandkids heal many wounds.

[onetexan]

41. Agree!!

[magicarpet]

3. Babies help adults who have their heads screwed on backwards.

God Bless grandpa,... Just in time to experience life's precious moments.

[iluvtennis]

12. Indeed. n/t

[Enter stage left]

4. Damn onions...thanks for that, it was wonderful.

What a beautiful little girl.

[Thunderbeast]

5. My racist KKK uncle

melted when my biracial daughter giggled and grinned as he bounced her on his knee.

It is hard to hate people if you actually have human contact with them.

[Ilsa]

10. "It is hard to hate people if

you actually have human contact with them."

[iluvtennis]

13. Ditto. n/t

[cyndensco]

29. Did your uncle accept all blacks

or was your daughter, in his mind, not like the others?

Just curious....

[Thunderbeast]

30. He was in his 90s when he engaged with my daughter.

I did not have much exposure to him after that, but I don't sense that there was a huge transformation. He lived in Arizona, so Mexicans became his target of bias.

It was perhaps an isolated event, but after hearing his rage at black athletes, entertainers, and any mixed-race couple he came across for years, it was a small glimmer of hope for me.

[Demovictory9]

33. Wonderful

[markie]

6. ...

[cilla4progress]

7. Gorgeous -

thanks.

Hearts and minds, people, hearts and minds!

[Aristus]

8. Wonderful...

[DemUnleashed]

9. Too...

Too heartwarming to express in words!!

[70sEraVet]

11. Just proof that people have been TAUGHT to hate

When given some new information (in the form of an adorable biracial grandchild), people can overthrow the old prejudices that were taught!

[eppur_se_muova]

27. racism is "not born in you! It happens after you're born..."

"You've Got to Be Carefully Taught" (sometimes "You've Got to Be Taught" or "Carefully Taught" ) is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific.

South Pacific received scrutiny for its commentary regarding relationships between different races and ethnic groups. In particular, "You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught" was subject to widespread criticism, judged by some to be too controversial or downright inappropriate for the musical stage.[1] Sung by the character Lieutenant Cable, the song is preceded by a line saying racism is "not born in you! It happens after you’re born..."

Rodgers and Hammerstein risked the entire South Pacific venture in light of legislative challenges to its decency or supposed Communist agenda. While the show was on a tour of the Southern United States, lawmakers in Georgia introduced a bill outlawing entertainment containing "an underlying philosophy inspired by Moscow."[2] One legislator said that "a song justifying interracial marriage was implicitly a threat to the American way of life."[2] Rodgers and Hammerstein defended their work strongly. James Michener, upon whose stories South Pacific was based, recalled, "The authors replied stubbornly that this number represented why they had wanted to do this play, and that even if it meant the failure of the production, it was going to stay in."[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ve_Got_to_Be_Carefully_Taught

Pretty damn ballsy to do this back in 1949.

[AllaN01Bear]

35. remember the episode and scene in the original star trek series where kirk kissed Uhura

in the episode , Uhura kissed kirk and that epi got pulled from the air in southern states .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_and_Uhura's_kiss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyota_Uhura

[BobTheSubgenius]

39. Not exactly the same thing, but along the same lines.

When "Society's Child" by Janis Ian was released, a lot of radio stations refused to play it, and one that did was burned to the ground.

Some people take their racism very seriously, and it is near and dear to whatever it is in them that would be a heart in normal people.

[jmbar2]

14. My racist uncle also melted

He called her "My precious chocolate drop".

[blueinredohio]

15. Beautiful little girl

Looks like my dad and my niece. He was also a racist hillbilly until she came along. Funny how those things happen.

[peppertree]

16. The power of love

[Warpy]

17. Angry, racist hillbillies are just fine with the POC they know

It's those others out there they can't stand.

Still, he's a cute grandpa and she's adorable.

[sheshe2]

20. Yes, things may change.

The heart is a strange thing and can grow to encompass those that are not your own.

It can happen.

[Warpy]

21. I sincerely hope they do. In fact, I think we need to count on that

if we want our country to survive Dumdum's fan club.

My dad was a racist Modwesterner. I never saw him to be rude or dismissive to any POC, he was always a gent, so I ignored the rhetoric and went my own way. He taught me to watch what people do, not what they say.

It seems this grandpa is doing just fine.

[Drunken Irishman]

22. Bingo.

[NickB79]

25. Yep. The ones they know are the exceptions to the rule in their minds

Not representative of the years of stereotypes they've believed. They just reconcile the cognitive dissonance by reasoning that they found one of the few "good ones."

[patphil]

18. That's the power of love.

[TomSlick]

19. Adorable picture and adorable story.

Thanks.

[luvallpeeps]

23. How does it go? Be careful who you hate....

It might be someone you love.

[Stuart G]

24. Wonderful - Thank You for Posting This..

[sarge43]

26. Grandkids: They find a way into the hardest hearts. n/t

[twodogsbarking]

28. When you are told one thing all of your life

it can be hard to change, if at all.

[TigressDem]

31. IF you take the time to get to know people....

they are all people.

There are so many things that can pull us apart, but when you really get the chance to know another person, it doesn't matter what package they are wrapped in.

[llashram]

32. there is hope

not much in my book, but hope nonetheless

[sheshe2]

36. I hear you. :)

[llashram]

37. ...

[AllaN01Bear]

34. sez aww . im melting here.:)

[LetMyPeopleVote]

38. People can change

[Iggo]

40. Once most of us see Black poeple as people, the whole thing kinda breaks down.

Most of us.

And not the whole thing.

Just the curtain.

[Aussie105]

42. Fell in love with my first grand daughter first time I saw her

soon after her birth.

The dark skin, the dark hair, the dark eyes, the alert and knowing look on her face, taking it all in.

She is half Vietnamese, half Caucasian. (Mother is full Vietnamese, orphan airlifted out by the US at the fall of Saigon.)

She grew up smarter, taller, healthier and harder working than both of her parents put together.

No fluke, same thing with the second grand daughter from another father. (Neither Caucasian fathers bothered to stick around.)

Something to be said for mixed race reproduction. (And Caucasian fathers.)

In plants, that's called hybrid vigour. No idea what you call it in humans.

[Me.]

43. OMG What A Darling!

[sheshe2]

44. Both of them are.

Grandpa folded, who wouldn't.

[Me.]

45. ...

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