LV. Reasons. August 29, 2020

>driving Lyft

>got this white lady back there

>probably my age

>kinda matronly

>she proceeds to drop the n-word during her description of some hairs she found in my backseat

>I say,”Lady, PLEASE don’t use that word”

>and I say nothing else for the rest of the trip

>to her credit

>she does not say it again

>but instead gives a graduate seminar about why it’s fine when she says that

>first, she said it with an a, not an –er

>I might not have known that

>and that way it’s not disrespectful

>also, she is from the ghetto

>no the real ghetto where everybody’s Black

>her ex-husband is Black

>her two kids are mixed

>her boyfriend is Black

>we’re going to his house right now

>and if I wait a second she’ll go get him and prove it

>so I’m supposed to just wait right there a second

>but I shrug and leave anyway