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In reply to the discussion: Alabama Republican Loses Election & GOES INSANE: ‘I Lost. The N***er Won’ [View all]exboyfil
(18,360 posts)but quite possibly in her social group.
I saw it regularly in Tennessee when I lived there for five years in my 30s. Friends of ours who were African American (he was a doctor) were regularly insulted, and the mom was warned off of taking her child to the restroom in one of our small towns near our city (Cookeville).
I may have been less aware of it when I was in high school in Mississippi, but I must have had the attitude somewhat as well because my half brother (who lived with his mom) called me up short about it. I can never remember using the n word though. I did have African American friends in high school, but not many given that about 30% of the school was African Americans.
My mom who is originally from West Virginia still regularly uses the n word (she is in her early 70s). I had my grandpa explain to me when I was a teenager how every black girl who was born should be sterilized.