This is America

Shannon Barber
Sep 4, 2018 · 6 min read

CN: racial epithets,

The scene. It is the mid 90s and I am a teenager with a crappy job in a telemarketing hotbox. I get hung up on, had started smoking and spent most of my time listening to a man who called himself a master junkie, extol the virtues of an old-fashioned rig. While on break, we sat outside smoking together and we talked books and a man I hadn’t met walked up and stood in front of me. While he stood there, his face turned a few shades of red before he spoke.

“I can’t believe they let ghetto niggers work here.”

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