Racial slur on sofa shocks african american family


	Racial slur on sofa shocks african american family

lordthor

4-6-2007 8:44 PM

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racial slur, nigger

lordthor says:

w-w-w-WRONG!

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4-8-2007 12:44 AM

Thorne

Indeed. That's crazy.

4-8-2007 1:01 AM

enbar

Good lord ... that's bizarre.

4-8-2007 6:49 AM

Annaannaanna

sh... we're treating human beings as objects, moreover, we're insulting human througout these objects ..

4-8-2007 9:50 AM

gingembre

What an insult! Do you suppose this was a deliberate slur or an unfortunate misspelling of the color niger? Lost in translation, so to speak?

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