^^I’m sure that Jimmy wasn’t going to buy an oak bedroom set. It was just payoff money.
And money I’m guessing Bonnie won’t know about.
It was a couple of hundred to replace the stuff and a few thousand to shut Jimmy the hell up so they could get the situation handled. Bonnie, coming home after a night shift as a nurse, probably won’t notice the missing sheets until Jimmy can replace them, but she would certainly notice three hoods and a Marvin-encrusted POS in the garage.
I’m not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police work, there, jtgain. This was about 15 years ago, not the 1930’s. Saying the n-word at all – much less to a black man – was just as taboo then as it is now.
It’s always been taboo in polite society; even in 1930s Mississippi official records would use Negro or Colored and it was understood (just not always cared) that n-gger was a pejorative.
That’s not how I remember it.
[jules] Example. [/jules]
I agree with jtgain.
Boy, I sure don’t. Certainly during my college days (1985-90) and later calling a black man a nigger without prior permission of some kind or the other would be bound to start a fight. Maybe it was my crowd but I sure wouldn’t have done it unless I was intentionally antagonizing someone and looking to get violent.
That doesn’t contradict what he said, though. I do remember the word not being censored on tv, which is the core of his argument as I read it.
EDIT: Note that you’re saying “calling a black man a nigger,” which jtgain specifically mentions (in ALL CAPS) as not being what he was talking about, and would likely elicit the exact reaction you say.