Could this racism be a result of a disintegrating mind?

[ellenrr]

4. thank you for your thoughts...

After the 1st time, I thot I would ignore it. After the 2nd time, I thot I must say something.
Now I am not sure.
I am reminded of someone who was 90 when she died, and she had some kind of (undiagnosed) cognitive impairment for the last 10 years of her life.
She was also in all ways that I knew her, a great progressive.
One day she had the newspaper spread out on the table to the births page, and she asked me what I saw. It turned out her "point" was that only women with Spanish surnames were giving birth. According to her. Not true of course. I didn't know what to say. By then, she had already exhibited very strange behavior and speech, particular denigrating various people for various attributes. I didn't know her before her mental coming-apart, I think it was not her character, but who knows.. Sad....