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9/11/2019

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It is hard to believe that I wrote this over 35 years ago. It is an actual conversation I had with a new friend in the US after spending 5 years in England. (Do not be offended)
The other day I had s discussion with a friend who was looking through my old high school yearbook.
            “What did you call niggers in England?” inquired my friend.
            “Well,” I started to reply, “it depended . . .”
            “Oh, on what?”
            “Well if his name was Robert, I’d call him Bob, Rob or Bobby.  If she were a girl named Charlene, I’d call her Char or Cherry . . .”
            “You mean you didn’t call them spades, fuzzies or niggers?” asked my startled friend.
            “Why should I have?  The never called me honky, whitey or redneck.  In fact the only words really used for each other were friend or bro.”
            I didn’t see much of my friend after that, I suppose he saw me as a threat to white supremacy.   A very wise man once said, “And just as you want people to do to you, do the same to them.”  Sometimes I wonder if we really read all the books we say we do?
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