Reply #3: Not my grandparents, but my great-grandfather

[democrattotheend]

I'm 24, and my grandparents are as enlightened as can be (they'd even accept me if I were gay, and I was the only one in my freshman seminar class in college to be able to say that about my grandparents). But not long before he died, we visited my great-grandfather in his nursing home, and my brother and I were shocked to hear him use the N-word and complain about the fact that some of the nurses were black. It was disturbing, but I recognized that he was from a different time and there wasn't much we could do to change his mind at this stage.