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To: Steve Van Doorn

COON is short for Baracoons. barracks used historically for the internment of slaves or criminals.

Well, lawdy. I larn't somethin' today. I had always figgered calling black people 'coons' had something to do with raccoons, but for the life of me, I couldn't figger why.

ThankQ, Van Doorn.

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462 posted on 08/27/2022 9:45:39 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)

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To: bagster

And, us yankees need to take care.
Took me 20 minutes to explain that raccoons actually made nests.

486 posted on 08/27/2022 1:01:39 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Islam is NOT a religion of any sort. It is a violent and tyrannical system of ruling others.)

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