Re: OT: baloney and cheese

Joe Fatula wrote:
> This sounds strange to me.  I've never found "coon" meaning anything other
> than "raccoon".  From the way you're saying this, I guess that "coon"
> meaning a black person is something said in America, but I've never heard
> it.  I've lived in the north and in California, so perhaps it's something
> used in the south.  (That's a whole different country anyways.)
It's not common, but the few times I've heard the word "coon", it's
usually been referring to black people.  I have no idea of the origin of
this particular slur.  But, most of the times when I have heard it was
in a historical-type context, like a movie or book occurring before
around the 1960's or so.

There was a joke relating to that word in "Forrest Gump", where someone
talks about "coons" coming to the University of Alabama, and Forrest is
confused about why a raccoon would be going to the school.  :-)

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