Sentence examples for has racist connotations from inspiring English sources

"I have since learned that the phrase has racist connotations.

Bloom found himself at the centre of a furore after he was recorded calling for an end to foreign aid going to "bongo bongo land" and faced accusations the phrase has racist connotations.

Townsend has since taken to Twitter to stress no offence was taken, though the word "monkey" can certainly have racist connotations.

It comes as the opposition leader, Michael Gunner, issues an apology for saying Giles was "off the reservation", claiming he was unaware the phrase had racist connotations.

The Mayor of Barcelona, Joan Clos, told reporters that Mr. Pacheco's death had "racist connotations" and required "that justice be done as quickly as possible".

The Longmont City Council voted 6 to 1 this week to change the name of a local street, Chivington Drive, after a group complained that it had racist connotations.

Liberty called the vans "deeply offensive", suggesting they had "racist connotations - mirroring National Front slogans from the 1970s".

Refinery29 posed the question: "Why do people keep doing this?" And added, "It must be knowingly and for the attention, because we can't imagine that there is really anyone out there ignorant enough to think that this has no racist connotations".

A senator here has said that what happened had racist, anti-Semitic connotations.

Crippens did not find the film to have any racist connotations, while Edwards found it inflammatory and felt it should not have been made, particularly during that year when a series of murders of black children was occurring in Atlanta.

These comments, beyond having inescapably racist connotations, are also disparaging of Luol Deng's African heritage.