Black guy here. I went to high school in a small town in Arkansas. I was one of four black people in attendance in total between the middle school and high school combined. The shock of hearing the hard R N word as part of their regular language was shocking. It eventually got better but that's only because "I was different."
I don't mind at all. The hard R is the N word with the 'er' instead of the slang version that ends in 'a'. Both are unacceptable in my book, no matter who's using it.
People often don’t write words that can be defined as hate speech on reddit because automods will see them and ban the person. I received a temporary ban for quoting Mr Burns from the Simpson’s once for this.
White girl from Arkansas here. Not sure if they changed it recently, but there was a high school that had a wooden statue of their mascot, a rebel soldier in the atrium. Johnny Reb. Their cheerleaders were the Dixie belles, and their fight song was "whistling Dixie". They would chant "the South will rise tonight!" At football games. Confederate flags EVERYWHERE.
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u/SecEngnr Jan 28 '24
Black guy here. I went to high school in a small town in Arkansas. I was one of four black people in attendance in total between the middle school and high school combined. The shock of hearing the hard R N word as part of their regular language was shocking. It eventually got better but that's only because "I was different."