Apparently "Canadian" is now used the way they used
"Fred":
http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=261286
On Feb 1, 2008 4:11 PM, Richard Moore <
moorich@aol.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> I imagine someone has written a history of racial
slurs. Many years
> ago when I worked in the Senate, I heard one of the
oddest race-based
> terms from someone who worked for Senator Jesse
Helms of North
> Carolina. The Helms staffer said something like
"That will keep the
> Freds happy" or something like that. Asked to
explain, he said that in
> the office they used the word "Fred" to signify any
black person. It
> was an office code they used to identify (say when
passing along a
> telephone call to another staffer) someone as black
without anyone
> overhearing the term knowing what was going
on.
>
> Richard Moore
>
>
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