Am I the only one - aside from Z’s pal Joe Oliver - to suggest that “coon” is a VERY old-fashioned word for a young man to be using? If he was going to call Martin out on his race, I think he’d use the n word.
Didn't he also say the word could have been "goon" . . . that, according to his daughter, that is a word of endearment.
BTW, 'tho it's not related to this case, my two Florida born and raised granddaughters, ages 6 and 8, have heard the word "coon" being used on the school bus.
Good point! Quite some time ago my two kids and I had an old movie on where someone used a word like coon or spade and people in the movie laughed. They didn't get the joke and I had to tell them what it was.
I was afraid they might totally innocently use one of those words and get nailed for it sometime so I went through all the ones I could remember hearing from my youth.
I was shocked and pleased by two things: 1)that I hadn't heard those in decades and my kids had never heard them and 2) that I could remember so many of them.
So much progress had been made and now this race baiter in the white house has set us back a couple generations... or more.