DeaconCav06
Dickie Hemric
- Joined
- Mar 17, 2011
- Messages
- 30,840
- Reaction score
- 4,962
CT CCXLV - Note to Self: Don't get Cancer
I think there is a difference between racist and anachronistic terms.
My grandfather was not racist. My dad has a great story about being on a Boy Scout trip and some kid (in the 60s) kept dropping the N bomb in the car. My grandfather says you don’t use that word and I’d you do it again I’m pulling over and leaving you on the side of the highway. Kid says. He pulls over and kicks him out of the car. Now the next car full of kids picked him up but the pony stands.
He was also a huge Obama fan in his 90s.
But one day we are watching ESPN and he says “I really like this guy talking right now. There is one colored fellow I don’t care too much for.”
I was floored. But he grew up in an age when that was the vernacular ala the NAACP.
I think there is a difference between racist and anachronistic terms.
My grandfather was not racist. My dad has a great story about being on a Boy Scout trip and some kid (in the 60s) kept dropping the N bomb in the car. My grandfather says you don’t use that word and I’d you do it again I’m pulling over and leaving you on the side of the highway. Kid says. He pulls over and kicks him out of the car. Now the next car full of kids picked him up but the pony stands.
He was also a huge Obama fan in his 90s.
But one day we are watching ESPN and he says “I really like this guy talking right now. There is one colored fellow I don’t care too much for.”
I was floored. But he grew up in an age when that was the vernacular ala the NAACP.