I spent my early years in a neighborhood (South Bronx) where if you didn’t have a racial slur attached to your name (preceded by “dirty”), you were being discriminated against. You just were too unimportant as to merit name-calling.
And you know what? Ten minutes after a racial band-and-forty, we were all playing together. No adults; no activists and no lawyers.
(preceded by “dirty”), you were being discriminated against. You just were too unimportant as to merit name-calling.
NOUN
epithets (plural noun)
an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.
“old men are often unfairly awarded the epithet “dirty.””
synonyms:
Well you might still have merit as a dirty old man?