Monday, January 28, 2008

Racists are Weird

In the U.S. south, is "Canadian" a new racial slur? Also When is a Canadian not a Canadian?" from the Houston Chronicle.

3 comments:

CJ said...

Canadian is pretty common lingo in restaurants to talk about black customers. I've heard it in every restaurant I've worked at. It's a pretty gross practice.

Meredith said...

It's just such a strange replacement noun -- all the Canadians I know are good tippers ;)

Jennifer said...

Regardless of the overt racism, there is an assumption that Canadian does not equal black (therefore it works as a replacement). What about Canadians who are also... black?