In context of the times it is perfectly acceptable, even necessary, for the story.
When I was a lad growing up in lily-white south St. Louis my parents would have washed my mouth out with soap for using the term yet they nearly fainted when I invited the two black men that picked up the trash at the gas station next door to my 6th year birthday party. They graciously declined...
I think race relations would be much better if everyone studied Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech.
When I was a lad growing up in lily-white south St. Louis my parents would have washed my mouth out with soap for using the term yet they nearly fainted when I invited the two black men that picked up the trash at the gas station next door to my 6th year birthday party. They graciously declined...
I think race relations would be much better if everyone studied Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech.