I seriously doubt your friend meant anything derrogatory about it, if you have been friends that long, you would have seen signs way before now. He was probably just trying to be hip or in a good mood or something.
The county that borders this one I live in, which is about 2 miles away, it is THE single most racist place I have ever seen in my life. I lived there for two years until my youngest son came home 3 years ago and asked me why he had to hate brown skinned people.......... we moved the hell out of there and FAST. We didn't live there long, a few years, and I had heard stories about it, but never really believed it. But turns out the KKK meets like every Sunday at the corner diner, about 1/2 mile from where I lived....... so we had to move. I am NOT racist and won't raise children who are.... and won't have them raised in a place that is.
I think of all the things my kids have ever said to me, THAT was one of the most crushing one, it broke my heart that second grade children should have to think about this sort of thing.
