"Monday" as racial slur

[Dan Goncharoff]

The following is a blog post from 2006 that mentions "Monday" and a host of
other slurs:

http://www.wackbag.com/archive/index.php/t-42164.html

DanG


On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Jul 19, 2012, at 11:20 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
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> > In the past we've discussed "Canadian" as a peculiar code-word for black
> people,
> > in use among restaurant servers (based apparently on the stereotype of
> both
> > Canadians and blacks being bad tippers):
> >
> > http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0801D&L=ADS-L&P=R14856
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> > Now we have "Monday" being identified as a racial slur, with Urban
> Dictionary
> > and other sources explaining the rationale for the code: "Everybody hates
> > Mondays." This has become an issue in the baseball world, since a police
> > officer is said to have yelled "Monday" at Red Sox outfielder Carl
> Crawford
> > before a minor-league game in New Hampshire:
> >
> > http://www.telegram.com/article/20120719/NEWS/107199787/0/NEWS03
> >
> http://espn.go.com/boston/mlb/story/_/id/8177081/massachusetts-police-officer-punished-directing-racial-slur-boston-red-sox-carl-crawford
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> > One of the UD entries says the "Monday" slur originated in Boston.
> Anyone have
> > any further information on this, regional or otherwise?
> >
> > --bgz
>
> No, I caught that too, from the espn writeup, but had never encountered in
> before, in baseball or elsewhere.  I wondered if it might be a reference to
> Rick Monday, 1980's-era outfielder for the Montreal Expos (the Canadian
> angle!) and L. A. Dodgers, but that seems unlikely.  Now if the slur had
> been "Bucky" or "Dent", that would be another story.
>
> LH
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