Dear Abby: Family gatherings marred by hate speech
A reader shares an experience of leaving a family gathering early after a relative made racist comments, highlighting the difficulty of addressing hate speech within families.
DEAR ABBY: All members of my family are white. When my children were smaller, an incident occurred at a family holiday. One relative has a history of making racist comments, so this time we told everyone that if it happened again, we would leave. He did, and we left. My husband raised his voice at that person and made polite excuses to everyone else about leaving early. Then we all stood up from the table, packed our things and drove two hours home instead of spending the night as originally…
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