"Monday" as racial slur (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Laurence Horn]

On Jul 19, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:

> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
> Caveats: NONE
>
>>
>>> As I mentioned
>>> in the original post, the only rationale that's given in online
> sources is
>> that
>>> blacks get called "Mondays" because "everyone hates them." A family
> member
>> of
>>> the disciplined police officer says he called Carl Crawford "Monday"
> not
>>> because he's black but because Red Sox fans simply hate *him* as a
> player.
>>>
>> I did a brief double-take on BZ's reference to "the disciplined police
>> officer".  Calling out a slur at a baseball player sounds pretty
> undisciplined
>> to me.
>
> I took Ben to mean that the police officer was disciplined for making
> the comment


I took him to mean that too, which is why it was a "brief double take"


> (although, as discipline actions go, being put on paid
> suspension doesn't seem that harsh).

If he had shouted a racial slur at *David Ortiz* were he on rehab in the minors (which I suppose he will be soon), the officer would have been kicked off the force.

LH

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