"Monday" as racial slur
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Jul 20 04:37:39 UTC 2012
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
> 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 see. Nobody ever explained it to me that way, before.
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-Wilson
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