LBJ was so very wrong.

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9. Normal, yes. Heard it all the time.

Appropriate, No.

If used in my house it would bring the wrath of God from my dad.

And he was a scion of a family who settled in Virginia in 1664 with all that that included.

He left small town south because he could not stand the hate. He told me about it young. What opened my eyes was not what was done to Blacks, because at a young age I could not relate to it. He told me what would happen to whites who objected to the practices of the time. They would not be lynched...but they would not find work. Their kids would be ostracized. Their wives objectified. Kicked out of churches. Socially destroyed.

Had there not been some level of white support for the civil rights movement in the south it would have failed. Dad always told me that the Federal government coming in gave whites as well as blacks the courage to state their convictions.