Obama and Racism in the Family

It's hard to think of anything but the new president-elect today. Barak Obama, the product of a transracial family, has made history! Last March Obama talked about the racism in his home growing up.

"... my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe..."

(to read entire speech click here: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/18/obama.transcript/index.html )

If you have experienced similar attitudes in your own family and you want to see change check out The Southern Poverty Law Center's program Speak Up! . They respond to the question "What Can I do About Parental Attitudes?" here:

http://www.tolerance.org/speakup/family_parental.html

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