Another day at the pool gone horribly wrong

romanigypsyeyes
Wed, 24 Jun 2015 03:01:30 +0000

As I said before, several times in my post, in MY experience and in MY lifetime, “thug” has always had a racist connotation.

Meanings behind words change. I don’t know why this is even an argument. My point is that just because someone’s experience is different than someone else’s, it doesn’t mean either is wrong and it certainly doesn’t mean it should be brushed off.

I’ll take another word. The word “gypped” is a very racist word. The very root of it is racist. However, most people use it without ever thinking about it because they’ve never knowingly met a Roma. As someone who IS Roma, my experience with the word is clearly very different from most in this country.