Me Too, Also

The latest George Allen flap (which I don't for a moment believe --the guy's been a Congressman, Governor and Senator and this just happens to come up now --40 days away from an election?) causes me to reflect: I grew up in a middle class black neighborhood. We were the only white family, but for one or two extremely elderly widows who were never seen. All my neighborhood friends greeted one another with, "'Sup, N----," so that's how my brother and I greeted everyone too. We had no idea there was a problem until one day at the pool --in an entirely different neighborhood-- my brother (about 7 years old) started tossing that term around freely. Whoops.