Recently, my husband’s family has gotten to a state of being almost unbearable on Facebook. They are share hateful anti-immigrant and racist posts and as a child of an immigrant it just makes my blood boil. And what makes it even worse is that they are in between judgmental Christian post or they use religion as a means to excuse this rhetoric.

I’m not religious in the least, but I’m pregnant with our first child and I really don’t want her exposed any of this hateful ideology of Christianity laced with hate. She can be whatever religion that she wants as long as she is a good person. I’ve told my husband that I’m not going to bite my tongue once she’s born and he told me as long as I’m respectful he’s okay with it.

The thing that worries is recently we found out other people who have married into the family have called out the ringleader (the matriarchal grandmother) out on this and one even blocked her on Facebook. (This seems to have made the situation worse probably why I’m starting to notice an increase of these types of posts as she buckles down into it.)

I told my husband that I’m getting close to my breaking point. I recently lost my father and the anti-immigrant rhetoric is just particularly sensitive right now as my Dad immigrated time the US, legally, but still. My husband and his family are very white and I feel like he doesn’t really understand how it makes me feel and he tells me to just brush it off and be the bigger person. I am proud of my Mexican heritage and I want my daughter to feel that as well. I just feel like it’s getting to a point of it’s not okay to just ignore it and I shouldn’t have to. Am I overreacting? Could it just be my pregnancy emotions?