Not being from there or that era, is this, itself, a stereotype, or is this true? Would one use that kind of "slang" in a proper setting like a testifying in a deposition? Just asking. Thanks
***Not being from there or that era, is this, itself, a stereotype, or is this true?***
It’s true. My mom was raised in Tennessee and she always called black people niggers, not out of meanness or anything but that is just what blacks were called then.
My aunt did the same, drove a mail route through niggertown, and thought nothing of referring to them as niggers, because it is just what blacks were called then.
Look at the literature of the time. Major magazines had stories in them in which the word nigger was used often as a reference to colored people of Africa, India, South Seas.
H P Lovecraft’s story THE RATS IN THE WALLS has a cat named Niggerman,
The South Sea stories of John Russell uses the term quite often.
In the movie, THE DAM BUSTERS, the officer in charge has a black dog named Nigger.
I myself was not raised that way as I am originally from the Mountain States. My dad always impressed on us to never call Latinos “Mexicans” but Spanish, and I never knew there were so many nicknames for different races till I was in the military back in 1966.
Yes, that’s just the way it was back then. We mostly heard negro, that was proper for a black person.
I don’t know when they became black.
Upon reading PD deposition, I don’t think she said anything wrong. She used what is now known as the n bomb 30 years ago, and she admired the professional black men who were servers at a wedding. A job I’m sure the black men choose and were proud of their looks and professionalism.
She’d be just as doomed if she wanted a bunch of crackers serving at a wedding;)
She’s liberal but she is old, white, and probably clinging to her guns and Bible. Southern lady. She just said mooch ate like a pig on her show.
I don’t think it was just used there, my mother was from Missouri and she used the word to designate people that were what we would now call losers, low life, worthless. To my mother it was not a racial word either- she called whites that if they were really not good people. In the 50s, 60s time frame I heard many use the word that way even in Arizona, blacks at that time called worthless people that name as did whites. I could see my mother use that word in a deposition at that time, it was commonly used.