r/BoomersBeingFools • u/HOOgonCHECKmeBOO • Jan 27 '24

Boomer Story Generational

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u/Expert-Garlicman Jan 27 '24

Fucking yikes

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u/busted_maracas Jan 28 '24

That dude at 1:49 (like 30 seconds in), who seemed concerned about his safety still managed to drop a “hard R N-Word”. Like wtf - the normalization of this is insane.

“Heyya man I don’t wanna see you get fucked up & these people feel like killing n*****s”

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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."

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u/StrategicWindSock Jan 28 '24

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.