Far as your mom, those are some very encouraging signs.The process may be gradual and at times,maybe for her uncomfortable, but I think that she means well. My uncle recently confessed to my aunt that he no longer wants to be ” evil”( I wouldn’t say evil , but he was a really mean guy). This was also the same uncle who , at one point, was embarrassed to be around. I remembered an incident where we stopped at a grocery store, and was parked by a Latino couple, Neither one of them had their windows up, but within a minute, my uncle was out with the the stereotypes.Understandably by the couples expression, they were not too happy about it. I guess my uncle thought that they couldn’t speak/understand English.

My brother, sister and me was soooo embarrassed about it until we came all came close to getting the bus at night( we actually end up going inside the store for a while). When we confronted him with this issue, his answers to it would be incredibly boneheaded:” Well every race has a stereotype” or that “some of them are saying the same things about us”. He would say that he is no racist , but with the stereotypes he made about them, they would think otherwise.

We have good friends from all races. My parents didn’t raise us to be such and we would like to see continue to see people as people. If I encounter racism and I have on a couple of occasions, so be it, that is they way of the world, everybody isn’t going to see you as their equal, but there are some people who will see you for yourself.Those are the people that matters to us. I don’t know about anybody else, but I wouldn’t want to live in a glass box.

My uncle says he want to change. Change for him may not be in an instant, but it’s still encouraging to hear that he wants to do it. I’m going to pray for the best for him.