Heard on The Judges: "nigger" = man, person

[Wilson Gray]

Judge:

"You're just a old, no-good, crack-addict!"

Mid-forty-ish, black male speaker:

"No, judge, I'm not! I'm a *recovering* addict, a recovering
*marijuana*-addict! I'm a changed _nigger_, your honor!"


-Wilson

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain

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