"tar baby" in the news

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:
> a cartoon image of a black baby.

And, from the moment that you saw that, you internalized - in your
passive vocabulary, at least -  _tar-baby_ as a derogatory term for a
black person?

That's an amazing outcome! I really had no idea that racism was so
easily instilled!:-(

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