My grandmother is a white upper middle class Yankee. The only black folks she interacted with (before my father married her daughter) were those who worked for her as help or at her husband’s business.  She has shades of racism that she does not recognize but are second nature to her. I can say without a doubt that she loves me and my brother, as she loves any of her other grand kids.

It is worth mentioning that she always voted for the Democratic Party and she believed in the civil rights movement and social justice.