Idiots-in-law: Racism (part 1 of an endless series)

As far as examples of in-law-idiocy goes, I got lots of 'em. Waveflux's post Black. White. And asparagus., and the resulting comments at Shakesperare's Sister, reminded me (as if I need reminding) about one idiotic aspect some of them share: Racism.

When my husband told my father-in-law that we would be having our first child, he expressed his joy and relief by saying that he would finally have a white grandson. His newest grandson "sure is cute and smart, for someone who's park black." My sister-in-law is on her brother's shit list for telling him he only married his Filipino wife because he couldn't get a white woman.

It's frustrating confronting any of them on it because it doesn't bother them at all. "You're completely racist," someone would point out to my father-in-law, to which he'd reply "Yeah, I know," as if you just told him his shirt was blue. Roughly half of his seven (known) offspring are the same way and, not surprisingly, are supreme assholes all-around. It has been more fodder for my casual hypothesis that kids either turn out a lot like their parents, or do everything possible to be completely unlike them.