"mink" (n.) = 'a black, a Negro'?

[Wilson Gray]

arnold writes:

"in my experience, "fuck like a mink" is used of women and of couples,
regardless of race."

This has also been my own experience. Indeed, I've heard it and read
it applied only to people of European heritage. To the average black
person, a "mink" is only an expensive fur coat, not an actual being of
any kind.

But we were trying to get at why "mink" might have been applied to
black people in the, to the best of my knowledge, past.

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain





On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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> On May 9, 2009, at 8:46 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>> In addition to dark-brown complexion, also "fuck like a mink", WRT the
>> stereotype of black (hyper)sexuality?
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> in my experience, "fuck like a mink" is used of women and of couples,
> regardless of race.
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> arnold
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