[paulat]

I had to go look pickaninny up. I thought it meant a bunch of kids that roamed the streets. I didn't know it was racial.

The lack of knowledge of history on these threads gives me the shivers.

In a certain sense...FReepers lash out at folks who remember what words mean...because they have no knowledge of the history. I very MUCH know what "pickaninny" means, because old, departed members of my family were out-and-out racists.

I am sure that Jay Leno, walking down the street in LA, could ask teenagers, "What is the Confederate Flag?" and just get blank stares.

[Calpernia]

Excuse me? You accuse me of not knowing history because I don't know what the definition of a racial term is?

Go bark up another tree. And copy and paste where I lashed out at anyone.

[discostu]

It's pretty stupid and pathetic to insult someone for not knowing every random antiquated racist term ever used. The only reason anybody in AZ remembers is that it was a feature word in one of Ev Mecham's many faux pas. Get off the high horse, your family history is nobody else's fault.