Reply #174: My Mother-in-law's husband is a racist. [View All]

He has reformed, as much as possible, since marrying her almost 20 years ago and being educated that what he was saying was hurtful.. but he still slips. In his case, and in much of those types cases, is that they are just truly, truly, ignorant. There are evil people who exhibit racism as another facet of their vicious personalities, and others that were raised to be racist and ignorant. The white co-worker continually makes those jokes because he hasn't been told not to because he's ignorant and no one has complained, those two have agreed to allow that type of joking. I would faint over dead if someone said that within my earshot at work. I think it's the black co-worker's place to complain, probably.... but if your husband wanted to, he could report the man for his offensive comments. I don't understand why the co-worker puts up with that... Does the black co-worker make his own jokes at the other fellow's expense? I've had black co-workers, friends, relatives, and I could even imagine thinking that type of shit was funny. Sometimes people have odd friendships...