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To: longnshort who wrote (400922)7/23/2008 8:26:58 AM
From: HPilot  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1577829
 
and has been used as a derogatory term for a black person.

Since when? When some ignorant person claimed it was? Now you cant say black hole or kool aid drinker either?



To: longnshort who wrote (400922)7/23/2008 12:39:32 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1577829
 
Seems like it's racist when a republican uses it.

Gov. Mitt Romney has apologized for referring to the city's troubled highway commuter tunnel project as a "tar baby" during a fundraiser with Iowa Republicans, saying he did not know anyone would be offended by the term some consider a racial epithet.

I just looked it up. Doesn't sound racial to me. Maybe it is.


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