Wow, that surprises me that still happens. Thanks for sharing that experience. Being perfectly honest, I suspect the reason the n-bomb didnt get thrown around b

Wow, that surprises me that still happens. Thanks for sharing that experience. Being perfectly honest, I suspect the reason the n-bomb didnt get thrown around by white people in my world was half because of respect, and half because if anyone did, they would get their ass beat. I never witnessed that first hand, but people got their ass handed to them for much smaller insults than that. But typically the type of guys who would start fights were all part of the same group (chronic skippers, people into drugs, hard partiers) so the white ones had no incentive to ruin their whole social life and get excluded from the fun over stupid racism. And maybe that just goes back to having integrated neighborhoods and a pretty good black middle class, so that while most poor people were black or Hispanic, it wasn't something you where you could assume class by race. The white kids who grew up in the poorest neighborhoods (ie, public housing) usually adopted mostly black friend groups, and their style and mannerisms were more like their black peers, while upper class black people typically did the opposite (took on styles and had friend groups that were mostly white). I will say that the poor white people with black friend groups had some a tough time, other white people would frequently bully them openly for not conforming. I don't know if they also faced that from some black peers, but probably so.