“That’s what we hired you for,” she said.“Why are we paying a nigger if we’re suppose to clean it ourselves? That don’t make sense, honey.” I turned the water on at the sink as her word echoed in my head. I was angry.“Miss Veatrice, do you know there’s a difference between calling a person a nigger and a Negro?” I asked. “Sure, I do,” she answered, and explained with such simplicity that my anger dissolved and was replaced by pity. “Bakker says all the Negroes moved north. He says the niggers stayed in the south ’cause they don’t have no sense of direction. Oh, look!” She went to the
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Was this common thought back then or is this just Miss Veatrice being dumb and racist and belittling ????
