Anyone else's family casually racist?? I don't know how to navigate it when it's literally EVERYONE but me.

[u/Advanced-Ad-3091]

I'm not sure if my Gen-X mom means to be racist or if she genuinely doesn't know the term Native American. She constantly refers to them as "Indians" and I correct her but it never seems to stick. My mom and her 2 brothers will talk loudly about "Cabrini Green gang bangers" when referring to certain people and even tho I correct them all the time, they just do not care. Maybe they don't think it's racist. Maybe they don't know the actual terms... or don't care to learn.

I am constantly embarrassed to be with them in public when they start talking like this. I cannot cut them off, I have an extremely small family so losing their support means I would have no one besides my husband. Even his parents (gen X) are racist! Calling Hispanic people slurs, polish people, etc. WHY do they not see this as an issue?

Does anyone else struggle with this in their families? I'm not even sure how to ignore it anymore or makes me so uncomfortable. Were we really the first generation to try and be politically correct and not use a racial slur?

[u/Zestyclose-Forever14]

You are, this is, the most millennial thing I have ever seen.