Ken Fisher- Four generations Nigger Colored Black Friend

Four generations
Nigger
Colored
Black
Friend

In my own family the language has taken four generations to change, from my grandfather in 1920 to my children in 1990.
My grandfather and mother were from East Texas, but my children have lived in both the north and the south, as have I.

-Ken Fisher

 

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