"Monday" as racial slur

[Wilson Gray]

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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