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To: Biggirl

Using the word “buck” is probably racist, a cruel term applied to black males in the days of slavery.


17 posted on 05/22/2014 8:13:21 AM PDT by Colinsky
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To: Colinsky

I agree many will take it that way. Can’t hurt their feelings.

Side note: I believe in the late 1700s, a dollar was called a buck because that was the amount a trader or hunter would get for selling a deer in town.


18 posted on 05/22/2014 8:17:19 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Benghazi)!!!)
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