I refuse to live in a world where old Jews can't be openly racist. I thought being able to openly talk about colored people in public was the whole point in living beyond your 80th birthday.

What's next, is the NBA gonna ban my grandma?

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About ten years ago, I was watching the Cubs game on TV at my wife's (then girlfriend) mother's house. My wife's old 80-something great aunt Mill was there. The room was silent other than the TV, but when Sosa came to the plate, she says, "You know, they say he's Hispanic, but he looks black to me".

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

I think the bigger problem than Aunt Mill's racism is her poor eyesight.

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Before we shoved her ass in the home a couple years ago, my 99 year old Grandma lived in the twin towers condos at Montrose and Lake shore. Over the past 20 years she has gotten a lot of gay neighbors. I go to pick her up one day and she says to me that there are "lots of 2 by 2's living in her building now". I say, uh Grandma, what's a 2 by 2? She says that's what she calls the gays cause they are always walking around in pairs.

Classic name that I hope one day catches on.

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It probably doesn't help that I like to mess with grandma. Picked her up one day and she referred to a black guy as colored. I said, "grandma you can't say that word anymore. Nowadays they like to be referred to as Negroes."

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one time my grandma (moment of silence) was playing with one of my nephews and did the 'eeine meenie miney moe', then said the 2nd part of it WAY differently than i ever heard before....

Ah yes, the Imperial Towers. I used to live there--place was crawling with 2x2s AND elderly people. All walking their bishon frises in front of the building & being lifted into Med-cars & shit.

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"Smiles with Nostrils"

"...no Hmong, go find some blacks"

you probably saw my grandma, she was there from at least the early 70s till 2 years ago.

Old lady, white hair, short and plump, using a walker. I'm sure that limits it down to about 75 people who live there.

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He didn't look like that in his playing days, which was when Chus' story takes place (c. 2004), ya dink.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

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My grandfather called black dudes "The Great Unwashed". He really was a very sweet, nice, very sick sick man. It was kind of embarrassing to have him around when my friends came over cause he actually called a buddy of mine that. We were like 6 so the poor bastard really didn't freak about it. We had a black family move in next door. They came by once for some kind of backyard party we had, and gramps really ended up liking the guy. "That Dave Thomas ain't so bad for a black fella". Nice gramps. He was totally Carol O'Connor's Archie Bunker. In the long run I suppose it was good to be exposed to that kind of shit because even as a teeny tiny Darko thought it was bizarre behavior and my parents always taught me that was not the way to live life.

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My great Grandma referred to Brazilian nuts as "N*gger toes". When we told her they're not called that anymore, she seemed confused.

Gay I also instructed old folks in my family about those nuts. As for Archie Bunker that was oure genius to make him lovably ignorant to make social change.

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so is this a db thread for the nba or a shoutout thread for shakes' grandma?

I need to see pictures before we decide they're not the same person ....

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Before we shoved her ass in a home had me rolling


Both my grandpas were prejudice. The names don't matter but my one grandpa would throw out insanely made up stats.

98.7% of all crime....

Dropped that advanced stat on me on the way home from a Sox game.

My Grandma still calls them that.

And since she can't remember a damn thing, she will tell the same story every time she sees them. Do you know what these used to be called...? My mom finally stopped buying them at holiday gatherings just so Grandma would shut the fuck up about it.

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Don't be afraid of advanced stats, Bryan.

Very interesting since Cockney rhyming slang for "Jew" is "four by two".

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

my grandfather called them the n word at times (he was czech and moved here in the 30's) and was like old guy racist. it wasn't a "they are not as good as me" or "they shouldnt' get the priveledge i get" but more of an acknowledgement that they were different in ways. many of his good friends that he had worked with at GM in buffalo NY were black and asian. his best friends. they would give each other hard times pretty frequently. He really loved everyone and tried to help everyone.