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Apr 2018
I'm so sorry. I understand that racism is not cool & in fact I kinda love people who are different; but the words, not the way, old timey racists
talked are colorful as hell & sometimes they didn't even mean it; I've read accounts of writers being completely misunderstood;  
Brett Hart wrote about Chinese immigrants to bring light to their problems but it turned into a racist rallying cry & led to riots;
Stephen Foster was an abolitionist who thought his songs brought awareness to the plight of Africans in America;
another writer & artist wrote a novel to highlight the Harlem Renaissance called ****** Heaven & was pilloried;
these guys had the best intentions but someone like Twain or Conrad use the same racist terms & it's classic literature; Idk why, so I use those terms when I think they add color to a intrinsically racist situation which is not often. they don't come out of the blue cuz I'm not a racist I just like old timey words.
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