My racist Grandad
One of my Grandads was a terrible racist, who frequently referred to my Chinese housemate at uni as (famous prostitute) Susie Wong to her face. No amount of explaining how offensive this was would make him stop.

He hated anyone from the Indian subcontinent particularly, referring to them as "dirty serfs who smell funny", and refused to visit his new GP when he found out he was a Sikh. He died at the ripe old age of 100, offering his bigoted disdain to the carers who came in to wash and feed him to the very end. We had to pay a lot of extra sweeteners to keep them coming. I suspect some of them were stealing from him but I didn't blame them at all. He was a racist, sexist* git. (* Once asked me why I was bothering to go to university and get a degree since as a girl I was taking up a valuable space that would be wasted when I got married and had kids).

He worked for most of his life for a bus company in the East Midlands, including during WW2 when he remained home in his "reserved" occupation. He became a manager in the 50s, and refused to allow non-Caucasians to work as conductors or drivers for his company on the grounds that they weren't smart enough to be given the responsibility. One day in the late 80s, someone actually took him to a disciplinary tribunal over this, which he looked sure to lose until it was revealed that the claimant had lied on their application form about a qualification they had. The case was thrown out, and he held a little victory party at his (all-white) bowls club to celebrate. When I talked to him about it afterwards, he informed me triumphantly that, "Just goes to prove what I've always told you - you can't trust a darkie".

For balance, my other Grandad left Leeds to go to Burma in the war, returning home with a fixed belief that "folk are folk wherever you go, no matter what colour their skin is, they've all got kids and they all like a joke and a song" along with a strong appreciation for curry. He was lovely and I miss him greatly.
(L_J be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 17:08, 4 replies)

He had a point about wasting education on women though.
To be fair.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 17:52, closed)

beat me to it

( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 18:37, closed)

you horrible sexist bullies
wouldn't say that to a disabled black woman. who was a lesbian.
(Gritty, yet fluffy. kipperpillock is obsessed with me =), Sat 29 Oct 2011, 1:19, closed)

:)
I don't know about that, I still haven't spawned and I'm 40 now and may never do so.

Mind you, I'm also not a doctor now; just one of many tens of thousands of wasters with a degree that bears little relevance to their future. So I guess he wasn't entirely wrong.
(L_J be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 19:17, closed)