fredericks

As a kid and even a teenager, I tried to reason with my elder relatives about the race issue. It never worked because they didn't know any other way, and they just thought I was a deluded kid trying to tell them something wrong. I gave up trying to change minds in my late teens. To this day, I always express my dislike of any racist statements coming from them, but I don't try to argue my point anymore. Same goes for the gay thing. I always tell anyone who uses derogatory words for homosexual folks that I don't like what they're saying, but I'm certainly not going to change their mind if they're so anti-gay that they call gay people horrible names. I used to be very frustrated by it, but I've let go.