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To: Obadiah

We had a list around here somewhere of words and names that can no longer be used.

Two of my favorites: tar-and-feather is supposedly racist because it refers to boiling little black babies alive in tar - supposedly. Actually it’s from colonial America and it happened to royal tax collectors. The other, Little Black Sambo. The story is about an Indian boy, it has nothing to do with Africa but the people who have banned it have probably never read the book.


29 posted on 04/15/2008 6:07:49 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

Play that Funky Music White Boy!


30 posted on 04/15/2008 6:08:41 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220
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To: ladyjane

Remember the restaurant named “sambo’s” they were doomed from the start

good food cheap too...


33 posted on 04/15/2008 6:11:37 AM PDT by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
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