This Woman Worked Hard to Overcome Her Racism. So Why Are We Ridiculing Her?
I'm a bit disturbed by this post at Vox , about a woman whose daughter married a black man — causing the woman to recognize, then work to overcome her racism. The article she then wrote has become the target of ridicule, enough that she's had it removed from the website where it appeared. Vox: You can see why this post, which the author almost certainly thought was a message about tolerance, was read differently by people who were irked by the idea that accepting a person of a different race would be a major feat requiring point-by-point instructions and a mandate from God. I shudder to think of how she would have treated this person if she hadn’t found a biblical angle that mandated seeing him as human, or if she embraced a different interpretation of scripture. I mean: This is just liberal snootiness. And I say this as a snooty liberal! I don't like racism. I hate it. I'm sorry that this woman's racism was so ingrained that it created issues within and