Word: slurs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...senior tutor and masters of Mather House issued a letter this week condemning a racial slur directed at a Black resident tutor last Saturday...
JAMES LEE BURKE, WHO WRITES swampy, phosphorescent thrillers about New Orleans (A Stained White Radiance, for example), suffers from a terrible and mostly undeserved reputation for fine writing. Perhaps to confront this slur head-on, he throws in some undeniably lavender flourishes on page 5 of his new best seller, Dixie City Jam (Hyperion; 367 pages; $22.95). "The wind was hot and sere," he reports. And "the sun looked like a white flame trapped inside the dead water." And "an occasional fork of lightning, like silver threads trembling inside the clouds." It's a weather bulletin delivered by choiring angels...
Cincinnati Reds owner opens mouth; slur follows...
Blacks are not immune or prepared for this type of treatment as whites are often guilty of thinking. In other words, whites tend to feel that racism is just a part of our lives, and we know how to deal with it. Wrong. Each racial slur or discriminatory act incites a new feeling of anger and frustration. Therefore whites might feel slightly sympathetic, but in general apathetic. Blacks become disappointed and angry. It is, on the whole, disgusting...
...psychology produces a technique of gender slur that might be called Worst Case Synecdoche: All men are assumed to be as bad as the very worst among them. The rapist is Everyman...