terms of endearment

[Victor Steinbok]

Groan!

http://goo.gl/gQ8s1
> After reviewing a 911 call George Zimmerman made before gunning down
> Trayvon Martin, many believe they hear the shooter calling the
> 17-year-old a “fucking coon.”
> But a friend of Zimmerman’s family told ABC on Sunday that people were
> jumping to the wrong conclusion.
> “I spoke with my teenage daughter yesterday, and the word in question,
> it’s the difference between a ‘C’ and a ‘G’ from what I understand,”
> attorney Craig Sonner explained.
> “And ‘goon’ is apparently a term of endearment in the high schools
> these days,” he added. “I don’t know of anyone younger than 40 who
> uses ‘coon’ as a racial epithet.”

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