Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-3293219-20140623222942/@comment-3293219-20140628202438

Rowan Autumn-Arrow wrote: (it makes sense as a word for a spy since: Spook is dutch for phantom or ghost. I don't get where ever it could've been used as a racist slur. it seems bizarre to me.) (According to Online Etymology: " The derogatory racial sense of "black person" is attested from 1940s, perhaps from notion of dark skin being difficult to see at night. Black pilots trained at Tuskegee Institute during World War II called themselves the Spookwaffe." It also mentions the phantoms/ghosts and spies, I think it's more associated with the latter two since the 1940s.)

"Who else would I ask? Lucian? Nazir? Babette?" Kaizen asked, though he didn't bother to look to her.

"You're the most 'normal' person I know right now..."