"Monday" as racial slur

[Ben Zimmer]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>
> The following link from a 2006 blog mentions a variety of slurs, including
> Monday.
>
> http://www.wackbag.com/archive/index.php/t-42164.html

Thanks. I've found other scattered mentions online from the mid-aughts but the
popularizer appears to be the Indo-Canadian comedian Russell Peters, who talked
about a Bostonian using "Mondays" in a Def Comedy Jam appearance in January
2008.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-Ae_LXu7sE

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