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Manifestor_of_Light

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12. This is sometimes a problem in nursing homes.

Wed Apr 30, 2014, 04:14 PM

Apr 2014

When white people curse the minorities who take care of them.

My step-grandfather punched a black aide in the stomach, back in the 1970s, when he was in a nursing home. He was born in the 1890s and was racist but hid it pretty well. They put him on psychotropic drugs so he wouldn't do that any more.

Or as my retired African-American friend told me, "You're pickin' shit out of their asses and they're calling you a N****r."
That is a direct quote.

My parents and grandmother were Democrats, so it's not all old people. Bigots can be any age. As Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II said in South Pacific, "You've Got to be Carefully taught."

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It's an insult to older Americans when people excuse racist, sexist, and homophobic remarks [View all] Yavin4 Apr 2014 OP

I agree. murielm99 Apr 2014 #1

Age is never an excuse for bigotry. MineralMan Apr 2014 #2

Never understood that. The silent assumption is, young people are unbiased and tolerant . . . Journeyman Apr 2014 #3

and white privilege and male privilege end with an identifiable generation Supersedeas Apr 2014 #4

Right on! hamsterjill Apr 2014 #7

I am guilty of the opposite. When i encounter someone younger than me who is a homophobe, CBGLuthier Apr 2014 #5

or maybe they just need more time to become more enlightened Supersedeas Apr 2014 #6

Well, since the example I am thinking of is fifty years old, I am not sure he will get there CBGLuthier Apr 2014 #8

Very true. AverageJoe90 Apr 2014 #9

I ABSOLUTELY AGREE Skittles Apr 2014 #10

Kind of on the fence with that idea The Straight Story Apr 2014 #11

This is sometimes a problem in nursing homes. Manifestor_of_Light Apr 2014 #12

I am 75-year-old female American. RebelOne Apr 2014 #13