Yesterday my husband was working. He was doing a demolition job on an apartment building that had a fire in Saratoga. He was brining debris back and forth to a big industrial dumpster they had downstairs. During one of his trips, he said there was a little old Italian lady who asked “Do you mind if a throw a few things away in your dumpster? I have 40 years worth of junk in my apartment I am trying to get rid of.”
“Sure no problem” and he went back upstairs to continue work.
His partner went to bring down garbage and came back up. He asked my husband “did you see the little old lady?”
“Yeah, I told she can throw a couple of things away.”
“Yeah she told me. She said ‘That Darkie said I could throw a few things away in your dumpster.’ ”
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LOL. It’s kind of quaint, in a way. It was already outdated 40 years ago when she moved into the apartment!
When I was a toddler, the proper term was “colored”, and it’s always seemed too bad that the word passed out of favor.
Someone called my daughter “colored” the week before last, and I was baffled because it was a teenager.
Like in the past 100 years, there have been so many terms for one ethnic group, I am curious as to why they come into favor, and drop out to turn into insults. Some people do not mean to be insulting as much as they are stuck in a time warp. I could get all PC about it, but in my heart I know these people might be ignorant, but not malicious by any stretch of the imagination.
Yesterday at a restaurant, I did hear people throwing around the “n” word. My children heard it too and sentiment was laced with anger and meanness. It upset us all a great deal. My husband was like “what? are you going to say something? you can’t do anything about it”. But it’s like with the abortion issue, some people just follow along a line of thinking without realizing the consequences or what it means to harbor such sentiments.