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  • 'Silverbacks' called racially insensitive (Buffalo minor league basketball team)

    08/06/2006 2:30:02 PM PDT · by EveningStar · 56 replies · 1,331+ views
    Buffalo News ^ | August 5, 2006 | Stephen T. Watson
    Some leaders of Buffalo's black community say they consider the new name for the city's minor-league basketball team, the Silverbacks, offensive and racially insensitive. They say a silverback - an adult male gorilla - is an inappropriate nickname for a team with a large number of black players because bigots have referred to blacks as "gorillas," "apes" and "monkeys."...