Ask Amy: Homeowner’s racial call-out offends family
Dear Amy: Am I racist?
A couple of teenagers were at my front door, and I shouted to my husband: "Hey, there are some Black kids at the door, and I don't have time to deal with them."
Kids at the door in my neighborhood are usually selling something or are looking for yard work.
My biracial future daughter-in-law was present when I did this and took offense. Apparently, behind my back, she and my stepson discussed how "un-woke" I am.
Anyway, I love these two so much that as soon as I learned she had been offended, I immediately sent a note of apology to her.
I am in my 60s and was raised in the South.
My grandfather referred to all Black people using the N word.
However, I was active in civil rights during my youth.
I was the first white student at my high school who insisted to be put on bathroom cleaning duty just like the students of color had to. (The white students got to work in the office.)
As a reporter for a newspaper in the South, I had a gun pulled on me as I was covering a boycott of white businesses.
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