Last Friday, I passed some smokers while entering a poker room and heard the word twice in the time it took me to open the door and go inside. Aside from that, it had been months since I last heard it.
You’re doing what the kids do on social media, virtue signalling. “Who, me? Ever hear white people being racist? Even though I’m old enough that I was a grownup when public racism was still tolerated? Never heard it once since the late 80s, not even in passing!”
So, you don’t doubt that the word is still being used with some regularity in places.
Last couple decades, I have heard it in public with different pockets of strangers having conversations, where it is easy to overhear them while walking from one part of an event to another.
Bar, karaoke, casino, party. That’s when I overhear it.
Usually only white people around, which is a function of where I live.
Do you think black people are somehow the only people capable of violence? If I did want to say it I am under no obligation to do it in a situation where I am outnumbered.
I stopped going to bars, except for the occasional hotel bar or places that have tables and serve food, a long time ago. And yeah, I don’t doubt it is still used in some places by some people, just not in the places I tend to be or by people I voluntarily associate with. No doubt I could go to a redneck bar close by and hear it fairly quickly. Plus my hearing isn’t what it used to be either, so not picking up a lot of other peoples conversations, have to ask the wife to repeat herself from across the room quite a bit.
Why? He was trying to say I am following some rule imposed by the threat of violence by black people, all I did was point out, correctly, that black people weren’t the only people capable of violence and that if I did want to say it, which I don’t, that would not necessarily deter me. He wanted to try intimidate me with the threat of violence, it didn’t work.