@Flick @thatguyoverthere @FeartnTired

"Spook" was more northeast city slang. In the south you just called them -- well, you get the point.

But it wasn't necessarily a hateful word either.

I didn't get the "shadow beating" reference in a movie once either. Turns out it's LA slang. (Ironically, Russians use a similar word -- dukh, ghost/spirit/shadow -- for darker people.)

There is no USA.

There are regions of the USA...