![]() It was a word that had seeped into my speech patterns almost without thinking since I reached the fifth grade, when my mother sent me to a white-dominated private school outside our neighborhood. The problem: I had dared use a word none of my partners ever let pass through their lips, unless they were making fun of a white person: "guys." that kind of question was grounds for serious ridicule. But in my old neighborhood - mostly poor, entirely black '70s-era Gary, Ind. That might sound like an ordinary, even dull question. ![]() ![]() Eric Deggans is the TV and media critic for the Tampa Bay Times and a contributor to NPR.
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