Urban - a code word?

[Wilson Gray]

On Oct 11, 2004, at 1:25 AM, Dave Hause wrote:

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> FWIW,  I've heard, but not seen written, "fully niggerized" to
> describe car
> accessorizations.

That's the best that I've come across since I saw the following
graffito on a men's-room wall at Washington U: "Please join the Campus
Crusade To Stamp Out Racism! Take a nigger home for dinner."

-Wilson Gray

> Dave Hause, dwhause at jobe.net
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> From: "James A. Landau" <JJJRLandau at AOL.COM>
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> Also, in the above quote, "[racial slur]" is being used as a verb.  I
> doubt
> that is a nonce usage, but I can't recall ever having heard it as a
> verb
> rather
> than a noun or adjective.
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