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IF YOU SEE A N*GGER

A Juneteenth fable

A few years ago my dad told me a saying/fable that his father told him:

If you see a nigger, spit on it. 

With the idea being that niggers are not people, they are scary mythological creatures that only appear to certain [bad] people and the only way to get rid of them is to spit on them. And I liked the idea of that. That the hatred and casual disdain o…

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