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Originally Posted by BillyMac
Third game, two Black opponents, more friendly taunting trash talk, but one quietly using the N-word ending in an “a”, both with smiles on their faces. Tough decision for me, a White guy, but I decided to again go with the players and coaches conference warning.
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Oddly, if the N-word taunt had ended in an “r”, I’m 100% sure that I would have charged the technical foul.
I never heard either of my parents swear, or use any type of profanity.
Never the N-word, they politely used the term “colored people”, seemingly acceptable to all races back in the late 1950s here in Connecticut.
I once used the F-word, repeating what a childhood friend said, in front of Mom and immediately got my mouth washed out with soap.
Spending thirty years as a science teacher in front of a classroom of middle school students will teach one to watch one’s language.
The F-word and the N-word are not part of my vocabulary.
At least until I accidentally drop an anvil on my foot.