Make it 20 or more years, change the context of what was said and ask Paula Deen.
Yeah. I guess we should go dig my grandmother up and lynch her bones. I should probably be put in a re-education camp because I heard the things she said.
Her dad was a farmer. He had black folks who worked for him and lived in houses he built on his land. They all had the same first name. N***er. There was N***er Jim, N***er Marvin, N***er Sally, N***er Dot. Everybody knew them by that name and that's all I ever heard them called. Even when referring to each other. Why when I was just a pup, I remember N***er Jim asking me if I'd seen N***er Benny around because he was supposed to be helping get the cows moved from one pasture to the other.
Come to think of it, EVERY white person I knew back in those days talked like that. And so did all the blacks.
That means YOUR grandmothers, grandfathers, great grandmothers and great grandfathers talked that way. Hell, I bet some of YOUR ancestors were standing on the quad at UA when Wallace made the symbolic stand in the door.
This whitewashing (pardon the pun) of history and pretending that a person can never have said anything that might be considered offensive or they must be publicly scorned and punished is asinine.
I'm highly offended by Miley Cyrus' "I'm neither man nor woman" bullshit. But nope. We celebrate that. We celebrate Cover Girls' new Cover Boy because he's fierce!
Fuck it all.