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To: LindyBill who wrote (222705)	10/5/2007 11:59:18 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794299

That would have been the end of it. That would have been the smart thing to do, of course. I've never used the word much at all myself, but I admit to laughing at some racial jokes in my youth. Once I got out of the elevator and found myself face to face with a black woman who ran our Cultural Resource Program. I hadn't seen her for a while, so my greeting was something like "I haven't seen you in a coon's age!" She said, "Oh, I've heard that phrase before." My buddy kept his mouth shut until we got back to the office and then he said "I can't believe you said that!" "Said what?" Then I realized that the word "coon" has a pejorative connotation in some contexts, which never crossed my mind when I blurted that out. I went down to her office and apologized, and she treated me most graciously. Sadly, that poor woman died a few years later, and she was way younger than I was at the time. I bet Fuhrman wasn't thinking about his use of the word in that play or whatever the context of his downfall was. I bet he just forgot about it.