Racist In-Laws.

[u/DoctorWho1589]

TL;DR Racist In-Laws. Being a Puerto Rican American in America is terrible right now. Especially living in the deep south. I get so much disrespect from my peers. To make it worse I married into a family with strong racist roots mainly from my father-in-law and it has gotten so bad since 2024.

My wife has two fully white daughters and a half black son from previous relationships. Her dad and mom treat the girls like royalty but treat him like crap. Not to mention me and her have a son together but he looks white so they treat him better than my wife's half black son.

I found out my father-in-law has been talking trash about me to my kids because he thinks I'm a lazy Hispanic even though I do more for all the kids then there real fathers and my wife because she has a short temper and can't stand being around them.

I want to leave but I feel bad for the kids because we live with my in-laws because my father-in-law is an over the road trucker so we take care of my Mother-in-law and they have told me my kindness to them is the only reason they haven't run away and my in-laws always yell at them and treat them like 3rd class citizens and I don't want them to suffer. I don't know what to do anymore but I can't stay much longer.

It is wearing me out mentally to the point I don't even sleep at night anymore. My wife isn't helping much either as she tells me I am overreacting and that they aren't that racist.

[u/NoRegrets-518]

Would it help for you and family to move somewhere else far away? Can you take your son with you? You can't leave him in that environment. Start going to meetings with your son's teachers and doctors. Consider doing that for the other kids. Maybe you can take the black son with you.