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When Your Parent's Bigotry Forces Impossible Choices

My father is racist and homophobic and I love him but I cannot bring my Black girlfriend around him and I hate having to choose between the people I love.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Love does not excuse harm, and protecting others from prejudice sometimes requires accepting painful distance from family.

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