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<blockquote data-quote="oldngray" data-source="post: 1158027" data-attributes="member: 45230"><p>Paula Dean definitely made a big mistake but if she is genuinely sorry I think she should be given another chance. Many others have done far worse and got off scot free. N word should never be used by anyone now whether white or black. Her excuse about growing up a long time ago in the South definitely not justify her saying it&nbsp; now, nor do I feel its right for blacks to use the N word either. If it was never heard in society that word would vanish from all use. She is correct about it having a different meaning in past though. I have&nbsp; family in Georgia and when I was little they would use that word to describe a black without the charged racial undertones the N word has now. Those relatives were definitely bigoted but the term black was not commonly used then in that area and was just another term for Negro. If they had said Negro then it would have had the same bigoted meaning to them. ( and yes I have bigots in my family but you don&#039;t get to choose your own relatives).</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="oldngray, post: 1158027, member: 45230"] Paula Dean definitely made a big mistake but if she is genuinely sorry I think she should be given another chance. Many others have done far worse and got off scot free. N word should never be used by anyone now whether white or black. Her excuse about growing up a long time ago in the South definitely not justify her saying it now, nor do I feel its right for blacks to use the N word either. If it was never heard in society that word would vanish from all use. She is correct about it having a different meaning in past though. I have family in Georgia and when I was little they would use that word to describe a black without the charged racial undertones the N word has now. Those relatives were definitely bigoted but the term black was not commonly used then in that area and was just another term for Negro. If they had said Negro then it would have had the same bigoted meaning to them. ( and yes I have bigots in my family but you don't get to choose your own relatives). [/QUOTE]

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