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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] My father's use of a certain term disturbs and confuses me sometimes. Here's a guy, college and post-grad educated, and fairly intelligent, comapred to average. But he uses the n-word. But he doesn't use it quite the way it's normally used. He applies it to both white and black people, in the context of deriding someone who's got a long rap sheet, is on perpetual assistance, uses food stamps to buy luxury items, who has children but is not a parent to them, etc. (you know, a drain on society), but REGARDLESS of race. I know the man knows and respects a number of black people, and would never use such words to describe them... but it's disheartening nonetheless. And I often catch myself wondering if I'm affected by that use. Or has he appropriated a racist term, and changed his personal definition of it? And is that a bad thing? *sigh* [/QB][/QUOTE]
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