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(04-18-2014 09:58 PM)Rick Smith Wrote:  The best illustration as to how Mr. Lincoln felt about African Americans are the negro jokes he delighted in telling his pals.

Can anyone cite some actual Negro jokes that Lincoln told, along with the references where that info comes from? I am not interested in the actual jokes so much as proof that he really did that, since I'm not aware of any such jokes.

(04-18-2014 11:02 PM)Linda Anderson Wrote:  Joe, the "n" word is a horrible word...

The "n" word is just a word. It sounds very much like the word "niggardly", which I think I recall that some people were trying to get banned from the English language because it is apparently offensive to some people. I wonder if more of those offended people are white than black. I wouldn't mind having my own surname banned from usage because of the mess of unpleasant emotions and memories that it elicits (it having been used like a four-letter word, etc., etc.), but I'm not going to make a push for that to happen. I threw in the personal bit just in case anyone accuses me of being insensitive, to show that I know whereof I speak when I say it's pretty childish when we have to start banning words instead of realizing that we need to do something to change the way we react to them.