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regnaD kciN

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7. More like what I used to hear from older southerners when I was young...

Reply to NightWatcher (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 28, 2017, 07:28 PM

Feb 2017

...when they would start to use the n-word, but then correct themselves to what was an "acceptable" term of the day, so it came out "nig-roes."

And I thought we were long past those days...

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