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nigger. in proper names. Group photograph of an early 20th-century baseball team from Ohio. The word nigger has historically been used in the names of products, colors, plants, as place names, and as people's nicknames, among others, but has fallen out of favor since the 20th century.
A racist postcard by Fred C. Lounsbury, promoting the idea of the Yellow Peril (1907). Chink [1] is an English-language ethnic slur usually referring to a person of Chinese descent, [2] but also used to insult people of East Asian, North Asian, Southeast Asian appearance.
In 2017, when professional sports dealt with a number of racial issues, from individual acts by players to widespread protests during the National Anthem, some commentators speculated why there had been no action to address the stereotyping of Native Americans, including the decision to have the Washington Redskins host a game on Thanksgiving.
Who is Jamarii Thomas? The junior guard from Greensboro, N.C., is the Spartans' leading scorer through 10 games this season. He is averaging 19.2 points, 3.6 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game for ...
Cracker (term) Cracker, sometimes cracka or white cracker, is a racial slur directed towards white people, [1][2][3] used especially with regard to poor rural whites in the Southern United States. [4] Although commonly a pejorative, it is also used in a neutral context, particularly in reference to a native of Florida or Georgia (see Florida ...
Anti-Sikh sentiment in Canada has a historical and contemporary presence marked by several key events and ongoing issues. Early instances include the 1907 Bellingham Race Riot, where South East Asian and South Asian immigrants, mostly Sikhs, were violently targeted by white mobs in Washington (state), spilling over into Canadian anti-immigrant sentiments and the Pacific Northwest.
niggardly. In the United States, there have been several controversies involving the misunderstanding of the word niggardly, an adjective meaning "stingy" or "miserly", because of its phonetic similarity to nigger, an ethnic slur used against black people. Although the two words are etymologically unrelated, niggardly is nonetheless often ...
Lists of pejorative terms for people. Lists of pejorative terms for people include: List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity. List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names. List of religious slurs. A list of LGBT slang, including LGBT-related slurs. List of age-related terms with negative connotations.