There was a forum at Masuk High in Monroe tonight. It was fun, cause Terese and Suzanne went. Vinnie did not.I did meet a nice guy from Abbot Tech, though.
The forum was on the Negro Revolution. In our panel group, one guy kept calling Negroes "niggers". There were two colored boy, one colored girl plus the guest speaker also Negro, in the room. What a choke!
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When I just tried to publish this entry, I got an error, and my immediate reaction was that Blogger won't let you use the N word. I almost considered not using it, myself, but in the end, preserving the authentic language and tone of my diary won out.
There was one African American family in New Milford, and one mixed family; and they sent a total of four kids to my high school when I was there. I watched the civil rights movement (bizarrely called the Negro Revolution at this forum) on television, not in my backyard.
I remember being deeply shocked that anyone in Connecticut would use that word. Racists lived in the South; Northerners were the good guys.
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