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To: Katelew who wrote (71932)	6/13/2008 12:02:23 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 542004

It's their age. My mom was super liberal. Our family went to a black church when MLK was killed. My mother was a staunch supporter of the NAACP and gave to the United Negro college fund. But when I started dating a black man, I thought she would die. That really bothered her. And when we broke up she was SO happy. That was a weird side of her, for me- but I think she was a product of her times, just as people who hate gays (or are made uncomfortable by them) are. Nowadays it's rare to find someone like that, prejudiced against mixed marriages, liberal or conservative, and mixed marriages are all over, and unremarkable. You can't blame people for being old and the product of their time. You can commend the ones who aren't, but I don't think you can blame the others. Which is not to say it isn't a bigoted way to be- but if you love someone, and they are old, you know you aren't going to change them, so you just ignore it.

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