Perspective: 'Everyone' isn’t saying the n-word — or at least admitting to it
By Petula Dvorak Petula Dvorak Local columnist Email Bio Follow Columnist March 4 at 3:39 PM HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. — A 64-year-old craft store clerk said she couldn’t imagine saying it.A 58-year-old shop owner said she hasn’t heard the slur used in ages.
“And back then, my mother washed my mouth out with soap if I used a racial remark or any bad word,” said a 73-year-old retired Aberdeen engineer, who grew up near a construction site, where he “picked up a really good vocabulary.” She said she doesn’t remember saying it. So then it could linger in the world as hearsay and open conspiracy theories that some of the hopeful and heartbroken folks in her district want to believe.“I don’t recall that. . . . I don’t recall much of that evening,” she told The Washington Post’s Ovetta Wiggins.But the damning part of her response was when she was asked whether she’d ever used the slur.
In my travels around Harford County, I ran into just one black woman. When I tried to ask her whether Lisanti should resign, she rolled her eyes and said, “You know what I think,” before rushing past me. Bobbi Barrow, the 78-year-old gun and pawnshop owner, said she’s heard people in her shop say it. She asks them to leave. So she was disturbed by Lisanti’s behavior.
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