An unexpected occurrence of an ethnic slur

[Wilson Gray]

True. And "whitey" doesn't dump on any *particular* white ethnic group.

-Wilson

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Jim Parish <jparish at siue.edu> wrote:
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> Wilson Gray wrote:
>> AFAIK, this is unique in black music. Well, there is the use of
>> "monkey-man" for a West Indian. But this is the only case that I know
>> of in which a slur against a white ethnic group occurs.
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> Hmm. Well, there's Sly and the Family Stone's "Don't Call Me Nigger,
> Whitey", but in that case the use of the slurs was the whole point of the
> song.
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> Jim Parish
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