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"It is my understanding that there were some racial name calling in reference to my name, like using the 'N' word," Mr. Cooper said.
In separate decisions yesterday, the State Supreme Court ruled that a municipal employee can be punished for using a racial slur against a colleague, and that even a single instance of racial name calling by a supervisor can constitute job discrimination.
Already, local congregations in D.C. are "banning" the wearing of the team gear with the racial name so everybody will feel safe and welcome in their services.
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Racial name-calling and threats were as bad as it got on a sweltering day in this East Texas town, where a black man, James Byrd Jr., was dragged to death behind a pickup truck three weeks ago.
"The black and white kids I worked with didn't seem to call each other racial names," she says.
They call him racial names, but you can tell that he's so much smarter than they are, so much hipper.
Thus the Introduction aligns the contingent formation of racial and religious identities with metonymy, or the material experience of being-in-place, and aligns static racial names with metaphor.
Discrimination therefore appears to bite twice, making it harder not only for African-Americans to find a job but also to improve their employability" ("Employers' Replies to Racial Names" 2003).
The two facts are not unrelated, as Lovecraft's racist fears are central to his worldview and appear either subtly or very, very overtly in most of his fiction (including, infamously, a cat with a racial epithet for a name).
So Snyder has formed the Washington Redskins Original American Foundation, handed out coats and sneakers on some reservations, announced "40 additional projects currently in progress," and says "that our team name" – a racial epithet – "captures the best of who we are and who we can be". You have to wonder when the souvenir "Original American" hoodies go on sale at the team's gift shop.
One important study that should be mentioned demonstrated how "racialized" names trigger racial schemas.
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