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Originally posted by Paradise359
Eclipse is right. Just this past semester I was in an African American Studies class & the professor was all about picnic meant 'pick-a-nigger'. Turns out it is a derivative of a French word piquenique. Which basically means to eat outside. So feel free to say picnic & please educate others so people won't be laughing at us as 'ignorant blacks' behind our backs!
Knowledge is power!
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I think it may have been possible that "picnic" was slang or a code used for "pick-a-nigger" because supposedley lynchings that were not part of state executions were supposed to be illegal in this country in the 1870's or 1880's.