I was sent off to a religious room and board high school by my guardians. There was one black kid in our class and for some reason he decided to square up on me right in class and called me a honkey. I'm a fair minded guy so I just yelled back "Nigger". We went back and forth like that four or five times calling each other "Nigger", "Honkey" and so forth with the entire class just watching in stunned silence. The teacher finally got us to sit down with dire threats but he was seething while I was just mildly annoyed and amused. Neither one wanted to throw a punch in class so it ended up in a sort of cold war for a week till the Boy's Dean moved some of the guys around and then forced us to share a room. Honestly, I tried to be understanding but there's just no way a white guy and a black guy are going to find a common ground. He would do annoying shit like use my blow dryer (Yes, that was a thing back then) with a comb attachment and leave it with hair grease and curly hairs all over it. I'd lose my shit and go on a rant. If not that, something else would happen. Finally one day we'd had enough of each other and it went to a real fist fight, bare knuckles. I got some good knuckle connections on his skull but it didn't even seem to hurt him. I figured we'd have to have a rematch in a couple of days but he was strangely quiet and left me alone after that. Toward the end of the school year we were all packed up for summer holiday and just waiting to be picked up by our respective families and we got to talking about "The Fight". He admitted my punches had hurt like a bitch and later left welts all over his skull but he figured it was like a principle to not let me know I had done some serious damage to his pride and his skull. Next year we didn't hate each other but we were kind of glad to not have to room together. When my family couldn't afford the air fair to bring me home for Thanksgiving vacation his mom came into the dorm to invite me to come to Omaha Nebraska to have vacation with them. God, that was awkward. Her food was pretty good so that part was worth it but then he fucked up and got caught by his step dad with porn magazines. I couldn't believe how dumb he was to be showing that shit with his step dad right outside the room but how that step dad figured something was up is beyond me. Door swings open and he was busted. I think it was the first time his mom had every had a "Honky" in their house. Most awkward Thanksgiving ever in my whole life.