Let me get this straight, re: the suddenly acceptable racial slur

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63. How old are you just asking.

I was born white in 1946 in Ohio. That was a year before Truman integrated the military services.
In Dayton Ohio where I grew up the African American community was called the west side because it was west of Main Street.
Segregation and racism was the norm when I grew up. My mom showed me a picture of a boarding house on the west side on Home Ave, where she lived before she married my dad. It was an integrated house. She also showed me a picture of her Black house mates.
My mom did not teach us to be racists. She taught us just the opposite. My dad was a factory worker and as such he had a lot of peer pressure to be a racist but he never taught us to be racist. The only thing I can remember my dad saying that was racist was to tell me to turn off the (n word) music I liked to play. I loved Soul, Motown and what was called back then "race music."
Our house was egged because my dad would not contribute to buy a house on our block that was being sold to a Black family.
I can go on but it isn't necessary.
I never learned racism and to many on this board I probably would be told I am full if shit.
I just like to point out as Malcolm X pointed out that we aren't all devils. We can have empathy and can help the situation as we did in the sixties. We can never live in a Black skin or know what that is like.
This is not post racial America but I remember the 50's and 60's and there has been progress but it has been slow. I did not know anything about life in Ferguson until Michael Brown was killed. That shows how bad it really is.
I think we need to stop centering on labels and generalities. I don't think those posts get us anywhere.