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Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby
As for Ms. Deen, when asked if she used the N-word, she replied "of course".
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When that "of course" is read in context in the deposition, I don't really see impunity. I do see either an amazing naïveté or willful ignorance.
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Originally Posted by ThetaPrincess24
She may be from a different generation, but this is not the 50's or 60's. It is 2013. Unless she has lived her life in a bubble, I'm not sure how she can not know that word would not be offensive, regardless in my opinion, of where you are from in the U.S.
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That bubble would be called Savannah. There's an odd kind of time warp going on there.
And to be clear, I'm not suggesting that every white person in Savannah is racist by any means. But it does seem to be one of those pockets of the South where there are more pronounced and odd mixes of old and new attitudes.
And while I can agree to a point about people being products of earlier times, I feel the need to make it clear for the record that some of us were reared in the South in the 1960s by depression- and WWII-era parents who made it
very clear that use of the N-word (or, for that matter, "colored") was not acceptable under any circumstances and would not be tolerated. At all.