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Date Posted: 11:50:17 04/04/08 Fri
Author: Joan
Subject: Re: Joan, it has been used as a racist term!................
In reply to: Barb 's message, "Joan, it has been used as a racist term!................" on 11:13:02 04/04/08 Fri

Coon can be racial slur. "A coon's age" isn't a racial slur.

If you look up coon, you'll see that it means raccoon, and is also a racial slur. Look up "a coon's age", and you only find one definition--a long time. It's not used at a racial slur.

Jethro hunts coon. Elly May wants a pet coon. It's probably been a coon's age since you saw a kid wearing a coonskin cap.

I don't doubt, though, that a hyper-sensitive, under-educated, attention-seeker wouldn't try to have someone fired for saying that it had been a coon's age since he spoke to the group. Hell hath no fury like the righteously ignorant. :)

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The problem is, Joan...that some ignorant folk will not want to see the difference.......... -- Barb, 13:20:44 04/04/08 Fri
- Re: The problem is, Joan...that some ignorant folk will not want to see the difference.......... -- Brenda, 15:11:16 04/04/08 Fri
  - You are right, Brenda.....enough! (NT) -- Barb, 15:21:41 04/04/08 Fri
  - A coon's age -- Joan, 07:31:33 04/05/08 Sat

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