My sister married a black man, they had kids, everything was fine for twenty years. They married when I was 10, I’m 30 now. Obama became president and some of my relatives would hint to me at how her and her husband were obsessed with racism. I didn’t think anything of it.

I didn’t know what that meant. Myself, mother, and sister were all Democrats and relatives who saw what was going on were Republican. Trump wins in 16, I hated it, but noticed that black people, Hispanic people I knew for years, began talking about how all white people were racist. I began defending myself over and over again. One guy even wanted to fight me because he said I had white privilege. Then I start noticing my sister and her Husband post weird things on Facebook about white privilege and a pyramid of white supremacy.

I try talking to my sister, about how maybe not everything revolves around racism on Facebook. She freaks out on me calling me a white supremacist.

I don’t know what to say. So I don’t say anything for a few hours, I then think ‘fuck that’ and tell her that her obsession with racism isn’t healthy.

She flips out and tells me to “try serving someone other than myself” Maybe because I don’t have kids? Wow anyone have an idea what that means? She’s definitely not serving anyone by calling white people racist.

Anyways my mom was a hippie from the 60s. She’s very out of it about what’s going on in politics and is voting for Joe Biden. She says she doesn’t pay attention. I try to explain what is wrong with my sister, her husband and kids, and she just doesn’t get it. She was like I was. Saying that black people hate white people doesn't make sense to her.

She doesn’t know what that means. I know this hard for conservatives to understand who were always conservative. But Democrats really do just not get it. A lot of them. I was the same way until it starts coming for you.

Anyways I’ve always had a strained relationship with my mother. I’ve cut her off from my life several times for several crazy things she did. But now I’ve done it again because it just pisses me off that she can’t understand and won’t do anything about my sister. I will never speak to my sister or her family again. There was more stuff she said about white people to me that I could tell you but it would take too long. My sister basically thinks she’s gonna give this country to her half black kids and us white people are just gonna be second class citizens. (Also she’s a Democrat who works in politics at the city level.)

I feel bad about my mother, and don’t know what to do. But at the same time it’s like do you not give a shit about what I’m saying to you? It’s like I know she doesn’t understand but at the same time like FUCKING DO SOMETHING! I just can’t get over it, and it’s really bothering me.