Yea I kind of know how you feel. While at my sisters birthday party, we get on the subject of politics. I'm not of either party but I lean towards democrat and while we are talking my grandmother says "Well I don't think a woman should be president." Not could not, but SHOULD NOT. I immediatly turn around and said "A woman can do whatever she wants to do." At that point, 3 WOMEN in my family turn to look at me and say "No they can't" My family is so screwed up. Later that day while my sister and I are in the grocery store she says "Well I don't really care about a woman being president buy I sure as hell don't want a black man running this country." My sister is 14 and clearly my grandmother and mother (who use the n word on a regular basis) have done their job at brainwashing her. I stopped her in the store and I tried to keep my voice down but I told her "There is nothing wrong with a black man wanting to be president. I'm so tired of my own family seeing things in black and white. You are so blind and its because you listen to your grandmother and mother who have known nothing but racism all their lives. Obama is a well-educated man and there is no reason he can't run for president and there is no reason he can't win the election either."

Then I said some other things along the lines of I will never speak to her again if she says the n word in my presence or says any kind of racist thing while I'm around. I'm really starting to think I should keep away from my family seeing as I'm about as unracist and unsexist as it comes.