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Growing up in the 80s, I distinctly remember it being explained to me that NFL quarterbacks were generally white because ‘Black people aren’t smart enough to be quarterbacks’. I very clearly remember the first time I heard the n-word; it was from a friend explaining who drank malt liquor when we found an empty bottle in a parking lot. I remember getting in trouble when I—having no clue who the word actually referred to, or that it wasn’t a word like any other—repeated what my friend told me to my mom, and am very glad I was lucky enough to have parents who not only taught me not to use the word, but why. When we moved to California, I remember my grandparents not being willing to visit us, because ‘that’s where all the Blacks and gays are’.
Anyone who says we didn’t see color in the 80s is lying.
https://dair-community.social/@KimCrayton1/112937651724812777Published at
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