Word: slurs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Ms. Werner responded to our questions in a drunken slur and from somewhere inside a thick cloud of Cuban cigar smoke, she revealed herself, contrary to legend, to be charming, polite and full of old-world insight...
...earful of protests last week after a company magazine sent to all employees published this cartoon, in which Africa is represented by an ape. Abject company officials apologized for the seeming racist slur, which they said no editor had noticed...
Hackney allowed Robin Read, a Penn administrator at the school's Judicial Inquiry Office, to perpetuate a near witch-hunt--despite the fact that Penn professors and others in the community rushed to Jacobowitz's defense. Read determined herself that Jacobowitz's remark was a racial slur because water buffalo are black animals native to Africa; in fact, they are endemic to South Asia. Regardless, the last time we checked, the rule was "innocent until proven guilty." Then again, this isn't about the Constitution...
Charge of racial slur ("water buffaloes") dropped at Penn...
Fortunately, those charged with the pursuit of truth in Philiadelphia came to Jacobowitz's aid. Dr. Elijah Anderson, a sociology professor and expert on Black culture submitted that he had never heard "water buffalo" used as a slur. The director of Penn's Afro-American studies program also agreed that "water buffalo" was not a epithet he was familiar with...