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Jeffersons Ghost

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1. Let's talk about "CRAZY" as a discriminatory word
Mon Sep 19, 2016, 12:05 PM
Sep 2016

I'm not singling out any group; but I am not a racist because my family hired a black nanny in Alabama, who loved and raised me like I was her own child. As I grew up, I watched the hurt in her eyes, when our neighbors called her a dirty ni@@er. While I defend their right to get married, some people, including me, think LGBT restrooms are a bad idea, which infuriates and unifies Republican and Independent voters against Democratic candidates.

But I want to talk about a different kind restroom, which no longer exists. When I was a child, there were three kinds of restrooms at businesses, which were actually willing to serve Afro-American and other minorities, called MEN, WOMEN, and COLORED. For numerous non-white people, males and females were expected to use the Colored Restroom; and even a child could see that Negros were being severely oppressed and humiliated, in Alabama. I was curious about the COLORED bathroom for males and females; so I looked inside. Maybe it was painted in rainbow colors, I was thinking in my young bipolar mind. I like rainbows and think that UNISEX bathrooms should have rainbows painted on the door; but that's another story. Let's discuss the reasons early Afro-Americans used to find the word Negro an acceptable term to describe them, while they despised people of other races, who called them Ni@@ers. I've heard modern black men call each other Ni@@ers, without becoming angry; but only a racist of anything other than African descent would use the term in public or private.

Guess what large group of minorities can still be called a truly racist name? CRAZY can be used to describe scared, people in extreme emotional pain, which might never end. Many of us are too paranoid to object. Anyhow here's a song, which uses a dirty four letter word to describe my feelings about minorities and their ancestors, who paid for your equal rights with their lives in many cases.


LOVE is a four letter word

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