Dear Abby: We drove 2 hours home rather than stay at 'perfectly nice' dinner with racist relatives

A reader seeks advice after driving two hours home from a family dinner because a relative made racist comments, following through on a prior warning.
One relative has a history of making racist comments, so this time we told everyone that if it happened again, we would leave.
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