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It all depends what you mean by the word coon. On an informal basis it is an abbreviation of Raccoon. It is an offensive term for a black person or a native of Australia. Or an offensive term for a person of mixed race in South Africa

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Early Spanish settlers in the southwestern regions of New Spain grew tired of the howling of these wolf-like creatures and yelled at them to "shut up!" In Spanish, the term is "callate" pronounced kahyateh with the accent on the first syllable. The term was slurred by English-speaking settlers as coyote.

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The racist term Coon comes from the ancient Greek word "co-on" (meaning black person)

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