This Is Us
You're Racist, Mom
Rebecca confronts her mother about her treatment of her adopted African American son Randall.
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I remember this trip your father took the Twins and Randall out on the lake remember
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Mom it's not the Twins and Randall
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it's the kids or even just Kevin Kate and Randall
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okay
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you okay honey yeah I'm fine
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I'm just tired
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it's not just tonight I mean since I've been here you haven't seemed like yourself
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is everything all right with you and Jack yeah
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never better actually
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and what's going on
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you don't call home watch anymore you stop coming to see us for the holidays
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you don't seem very happy I am happy
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we're all very happy
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okay
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I'm sorry
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I'm your mother I'm allowed to worry
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who would have thought the Randall would be the one to get into private school
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I'm sorry what
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what is that mean
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nothing
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okay
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all right
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you want to talk about this
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do you want to know why we don't come home for the holidays anymore
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it's because of you
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you constantly criticize my family I am not a good enough cook
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I don't clean well enough
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Jack doesn't provide
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you're gonna most certainly give Kate a complex about food and Kevin is going to think that his only
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value in life comes from how he looks and all of that is
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fine all of that I can sort of explain away to the kids but
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but
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Randall
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try so hard
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to get you
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to like him
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and
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honestly
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I've always wondered if the reason that you never bonded with him was because he was adopted
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but you've made it alarmingly clear
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that it's because he's black
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that is an appalling thing for you to say just because he's black doesn't mean that he likes basketball he likes football
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like the rest of us okay
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and you got to stop constantly separating him from Kevin and Kate
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they're all my kids okay I'm sorry I called them the twins
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that's what they are and Dora
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are made Dora she wasn't just a child that you had to train how to speak she wasn't she was a 50 year old woman
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who had four kids of her own
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I can't talk to you when you're being hysterical
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and Saint Mary's
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right we went to st. Mary's my whole life and then suddenly it's 16 we switch churches because we got a pastor
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from Ghana oh for god sakes I couldn't understand the man's
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accent Rebecca
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when the snow is gone
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I want you got into
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because I will not expose Randall to any more of this [censored]
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are you talking about
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you're a racist
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you're a racist
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sweetheart
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sweetheart I thought that you were upstairs
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hey
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no I'm Chris chicken pock
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you back upstairs I'll put some calamine lotion on okay
