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To: greenspirit who wrote (130219)	3/4/2001 6:40:36 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 769667

Eyup, one and the same. Now as for Jessie being called in, he did say white. I saw it and wondered what white nigger had to do with the tax cut he opposes. I posted this on the RWET earlier- Well Flap, I'm listening to your Nancy Skinner and she's mad about the possible elimination of the death tax. Her main argument is if the death tax is eliminated, the 4,500 families that pay it each year would be on an equal tax footing with the 100s of thousands of families that don't pay it now.

To: greenspirit who wrote (130219)	3/4/2001 8:23:04 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Byrd should have known better. I saw him say the words, and it was disappointing to say the least. George W. Bush will never lower himself. I've read a lot of Mountain Man books, many of which are extremely well-researched, and have often seen the term "Red Nigger," referring to Native Americans or "This Nigger" by the speaker in referring to himself. As far as I know, it was in common use up until recent times. Recently I have noticed that Black people use it to each other. That takes none of the edge off for me, and I still avoid it. A story on myself to illustrate how I feel about offensive racial terms: Upon encountering a lady who formerly worked in my building, I greeted her with "Jovita! I haven't seen you in a coon's age! How are you?" She responded "I'm fine, thank you. I grew up in the South, so I've heard that term before." Later somebody else told me he was afraid Jovita could have been offended. It hit me at that moment that some people use "coon" and "nigger" as interchangeable pejorative terms. When I uttered the word, it meant only "a long time." I went right down and apologized to Jovita, a gracious Black lady, who said she knew I meant nothing by it and that's why she responded as she did. We remain friends to this day, although she resigned a year or so later. The community where I live, Juneau Alaska, has many different minority groups but as far as I know there is little conflict. Everyone seems to get along. Of course I'm speaking from my own perspective as a caucasian. My Dad taught me not to use the term "Queer," and I didn't. I never learned its pejorative application until I was a young adult because I just never used it. The way I see it, if somebody objects to a term like "nigger" or "coon," I shouldn't be using it in their presence and most of the time not to anyone else. That goes for "white honkey" and "WASP" as well.