Yeah this was my experience. People used the slur n***** knockin' through all of my childhood 70s and early 80's but as a young adult in the 90s it was doorbell ditching.

I knew it as Ding Dong Ditch and then kids in my neighborhood told me it was called [Hard R] Knocking. This was mid-90s. I also spent ages 10-15 living in a trailer park in Florida, which probably explains this.

Not sure what OP's mom has to do with anything

I grew up in a very bigoted Southern town that was still firing people from schools for being gay in the 2000s, and they still frown on interracial marriage. The N Word was a regular part of life growing up.

We called it Ding Dong Ditch.

It apparently used to be called ni**er knocking. I'm in the rural south too, and I've always known it as dong, dong, ditch.

But then again my mom was arrested at a civil rights rally (on the side of black people being equal), so my upbringing might have something to do with it.

Your experience does not disprove mine, as a fellow southerner

it’s not. but you’re not the only one down there and you were, apparently, raised right. ;)