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fishwax

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5. it wasn't about something she said in the 60s

Reply to Bay Boy (Original post)

Sat Jun 22, 2013, 07:12 PM

Jun 2013

The lawsuit is about an alleged pattern of behavior in a business that she owns. The time she remembered probably saying the n-word was 1986, not the 1960s. (There is no indication that was the last or only time--only that it was a time she remembered probably saying it.)

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