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'Canadian' is the new N-word.
The National Post ^ | January 24, 2008 | Graeme Hamilton

Posted on 01/30/2008 12:27:48 PM PST by 49th

It was a routine e-mail from the boss sent to congratulate a junior prosecutor in Houston, Tex., who had won manslaughter convictions against an intoxicated driver.

"He convicted Mr. Sosa of a double intoxication manslaughter, got a weak jury to give him 12 years in each, and then convinced Judge Wallace to stack the sentences," Harris County assistant district attorney Mike Trent wrote in an office-wide memo. Then came the odd part: "He overcame a subversively good defence by Matt Hennessey that had some Canadians on the jury feeling sorry for the defendant and forced them to do the right thing."

The e-mail was sent in 2003 but came to light only this month as part of an unrelated controversy with his office, forcing Mr. Trent to defend himself against accusations of bigotry -- not because he offended the people of Canada, but because "Canadian" has apparently become a code word for blacks among American racists.

[...]

The bigger mystery is how "Canadian" came to be code for black. An online directory of racial slurs defines Canadian as a "masked replacement" for black.

Last August, a blogger in Cincinnati going by the name CincyBlurg reported that a black friend from the southeastern U.S. had recently discovered that she was being called a Canadian. "She overheard some of her customers complaining that they were always waited on by a Canadian at that place. She didn't understand what they were talking about and assumed they must be talking about someone else

"After this happened several times with different patrons, she mentioned it to one of her co-workers. He told her that ‘Canadian' was the new derogatory term that racist Southerners were using to describe persons they would have previously referred to [with the N-word.]"

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; racism; south
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To: Phantom Lord

Never know what you’ll find when you go digging through a woodshed.

This is all getting really dumb.


21 posted on 01/30/2008 12:42:22 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: 49th

This is silly! What do we now call Canadians?.....We call them snowbirds.....


22 posted on 01/30/2008 12:42:38 PM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: GOPyouth
Those Canadians are so well spoken...and clean.

What about Toquie?

23 posted on 01/30/2008 12:43:42 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: 49th

Odd... The last Canadians I spoke to were whiter than a photographic negative of the ace of spades.


24 posted on 01/30/2008 12:45:04 PM PST by Redcloak (Dingos ate my tagline.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim


It only takes an extra second to be courteous...


25 posted on 01/30/2008 12:45:24 PM PST by wally_bert (Tactical Is Still Missing A Chair!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim


It only takes an extra second to be courteous...


26 posted on 01/30/2008 12:45:33 PM PST by wally_bert (Tactical Is Still Missing A Chair!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim


It only takes an extra second to be courteous...


27 posted on 01/30/2008 12:45:33 PM PST by wally_bert (Tactical Is Still Missing A Chair!)
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To: 49th

Some of my best Canadian friends are clean and articulate.


28 posted on 01/30/2008 12:45:36 PM PST by Sloth (I feel real bad for deaf people, cause they have no way of knowing when microwave popcorn is done.)
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To: bruinbirdman

Now, which is the meaning of, “yitbos”?

Yell If The Beer’s On Sale...

Yo, I Took the B!tch Out Shopping...

Your Intuition Takes Balls Of Steel...


29 posted on 01/30/2008 12:45:37 PM PST by Old Sarge (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: Redcloak
whiter than a photographic negative of the ace of spades.

That's flippin' funny.

30 posted on 01/30/2008 12:45:46 PM PST by GOPyouth (Switching chairs does not equal change in DC! Time for House Cleaning!)
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To: GOPyouth

I have also heard the use of ‘Canadian’ to indicate a reflexive liberal relying on emotion and immune to logic and facts. It would fit the narrative in this instance though that’s not to say it has another connotation in the restaurant trade.


31 posted on 01/30/2008 12:46:23 PM PST by Old North State
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To: Ditto
Since when can non-citizens serve on juries?

Incompetence on the part of the court can result in this.

This was my parting gift from the commonwealth. Right before i evacuated I served on a jury in a 1st degree murder trial. To make a long story short, we convicted the punk (not easy though, for a little while I thought we might end up deadlocked). Then right before sentencing we found out of my fellow jurors was in the country illegally, and the conviction was thrown out.

He wasn’t a Canadian though. Other direction.

32 posted on 01/30/2008 12:46:30 PM PST by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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To: wally_bert

(And nine to triple post.)


33 posted on 01/30/2008 12:47:21 PM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Phantom Lord
Well ... Canadians is out ... what about Cambodians, or Cameroonians, Czechs, Colombians, Chinese, Croatians, Cypriots or even Cape Verdians? Black people getting pi$$ed about this is about on par with me being upset for someone saying honkey.

I'm just going to realize that they are stupid and want to hand them a sign.

34 posted on 01/30/2008 12:55:31 PM PST by Centurion2000
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To: 49th

35 posted on 01/30/2008 12:56:19 PM PST by Obadiah
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To: 49th
I got it. With credit to The Simpsons, hence forth Canadians shall be referred to as...

Puck-Slapping Maple Suckers.

36 posted on 01/30/2008 12:57:36 PM PST by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: Ditto
Since when can non-citizens serve on juries?

The sentence in the article right before the one you quoted answered your question.

They would have had to have been born in Canada and then became US citizens. I know a number of people that fit that description.

37 posted on 01/30/2008 12:58:10 PM PST by untrained skeptic
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To: 49th

Thanks alot, Mike Trent!

Now we’re gonna have to go and distribute a new code word.


38 posted on 01/30/2008 12:58:32 PM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: 49th
Alex Trebek is a Canadian!


39 posted on 01/30/2008 12:59:57 PM PST by jws3sticks (Hillary can take a very long walk on a very short pier, anytime, and the sooner the better!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

On, King! On you huskies!


40 posted on 01/30/2008 1:02:23 PM PST by G L Tirebiter
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