White trash. Trailer Trash. People of Wall mart.

[Catherine Vincent]

84. I may have used that term once or twice in my lifetime

I assumed it was an accepted term because I read it many times on forums on the internet. I remember years ago my family and I were attending a wedding. One of the flower girls was bi-racial (black/white parent). My parents mentioned that the child's father, my cousin, had a child from a white woman (we're black) and that's the little girl. Because my cousin was, well it's hard to describe but he was always getting into trouble...jail and all so I assumed he would be with someone on his level. I said out loud in front of my parents that her mother was probably white trash. The look that my father gave me had given me chills. He didn't say anything to me...he didn't have to. I knew right away that it shocked him that I would say something like that. After that incident, I have never used it since and never will.