Slippage 0
I’m a Southern boy.
I grew up under Jim Crow, went to segregated schools, and used segregated facilities for functions that are common to all human beings.
I know from my own experience that the N-word doesn’t “just slip out.”
It’s either part of how you think, or it isn’t.
For my parents, both of them Southerners, segregation was more an “our way of life” thing than anything else. They did not hate, but were persons of their times.
I remember, when my father was well into his retirement, his saying to me, “I’m glad those days are over.”
But “those days” weren’t over then, but merely in eclipse, and many are working to bring “those days” back.
