So, rant incoming... my hubby and I are going to spend Thanksgiving with his family. I don’t care about the holiday but it’s the only time we both get a 4 day weekend so we chose to use it to spend time with his family which we hardly get to do. But I am DREADING sitting down to dinner at the same table as his cousin who called me a racist hypocrite.

He’s the type who chooses to believe that racism only continues because we keep talking about it, and if we all stopped it would go away because we’re all “equal”. As a brown girl, that’s pretty insulting to me. It’s not me who chooses to have racist comments thrown my way. And it’s not my responsibility to stop talking about it so it will magically go away. Well, I saw someone being racist and I spoke up and called it out and damn, I received so much hate for it. And called racist myself for talking about it... by more than one person. It’s just another way to try to quiet us, to invalidate the racism some of us receive on a daily basis. And it’s just :(((

But yeah, I have already had issues with even celebrating Thanksgiving. And it SUCKS SO MUCH that I have to sit down to this dinner with this guy who called me a racist hypocrite and pretend to play the “good little indian”. It’s going to make me hate myself just a little bit more... ugh!!!