Sentence examples for construed as racist from inspiring English sources
"I now realize how my comments could be construed as racist.
In private, they said, he sometimes told ethnic, Jewish or anti-gay jokes and used terms that could be construed as racist, like a derogatory Yiddish word for black people.
He meant the observation as a compliment, no doubt, and would be offended if it were construed as racist, but the then England captain inadvertently painted the outsize Maori winger as something of a genetic peculiarity.
Over Mr. Stern's nearly 15 years as parks commissioner, first under Mayor Edward I. Koch, city officials and Mr. Stern's colleagues have often spoken of his tendency to make private remarks that they have construed as racist.
I looked at myself — should I go on the brothers' side or the whites' side?" Last year, after the Rockets selected Yao Ming with the first pick in the N.B.A. draft, it was less than a week before somebody in the league made a remark that could be construed as racist.
He later said: "I now realise how my comments could be construed as racist.
A key factor, according to regular people and pundits, was negative campaigning from the Hannemann campaign in particular, that mailer, which was widely construed as a racist personal attack against Mr Abercrombie, for being from the mainland, and for having a white wife.
I innocently marveled at his ability to tie a noose, without thinking of any of its connotations or the current racial climate at UCSD... Three days later, on Friday morning, I found out that the noose had been found and construed as another racist act on campus.
It could well be construed as being offensive and racist.
Many residents said their elected officials, three of whom are gay, would not help because they feared that a crackdown might be construed as anti-gay or racist.
"I started to feel proud and hear a rousing chorus of Jerusalem in my head towards the end of your closing paragraph, but then I got worried it might be construed as a little bit racist, so I stopped.
