Have you ever said "Martin Luther Coon" when you meant to say "Martin Luther King"?
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Yeah, it was an honest mistake. Meaning the newscaster let his real feelings show by mistake.
I’ve known one person who said that. He was a loudmouth unapologetic racist. One of the few people I grew up around who used the “n” word in normal conversation.
Doesn’t seem like a thing that would happen to someone who isn’t in the habit of saying “coon” on a regular basis.
No. Is there an actual person by the name Martin Luther Coon? I’ve never heard of him.
If not, it was a really fucked up mistake. I’ve never called anyone a coon on accident or on purpose.
No.
Can’t say that I have.
I agree with @Mariah.
I haven’t said the word coon since Kraft changed the name on their extra sharp white cheddar. Even then I don’t think I said it, it was just a name on a package. Who says that word? Nobody I know.
Martin Luther King is a household name. We hear and say it very often.
I never heard the word Coon as in a racist sense. Only in reference to racoons or coon-dogs. And I live in the rural south, not too far from a famous coon-dog cemetery between Cherokee and Hawks Pride, Alabama
In the summer of 96 England hosted the European Football Championships (Euro 96)
They (we) reached the semi final playing Germany & in one passage of play the TV commentator described the action when a German attacker closed in on a challenge with the English goalkeeper, it went like this…
“Seaman goes in on Kuntz”
Innocent or rehearsed, he certainly grabbed the headlines & I suspect this newsreader knew exactly what they said would do the same, probably said as part of a bet/dare with friends.
INo, it would never occur to me although I’m certainly aware of the term as a derogatory slur.
I’m pretty skeptical it was an accident, I would investigate them. That is a racial slir I’ve heard and not in every day language for many people. I have a walker coon next door and I rarely use it and never by mistake.
I’ve never said that or ever head anyone say that, although I’m sure some would. Have to agree with @Mariah post above.
I’ve definitely heard the racial slur. Never in such context.
I guess accidents happen, but I agree with @Mariah . Maybe the teleprompter people were playing a joke on the anchor?
Kardamom said the F word!!!
Nope. But then I’m not an uneducated white supremacist twat.
Because those two words are soooooo similar.
Mistake my arse.
Nope, most of the time I use MLK anyway.
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