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- Subject: Re: The use of fat black ass to describe Chaney
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- From: adams@spss.com (Steve Adams)
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:46:37 GMT
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- smezias@wissel.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias) writes:
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- >Personally, I would never use fat black ass to describe an African
- >American. I believe that Chaney is deserving of all the put downs and
- >contempt directed at him; nonetheless, I think the use of this
- >terminology is an inappropriate racial slur.
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- Calling him an African American is a disservice to all other African
- Americans.
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- -Steve
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