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Originally Posted by glatt
As a kid, my really nice friendly neighbors down the street had a black lab named Toby. It wasn't until Roots came out that I learned Toby was supposedly a very common slave name. I still wonder about them.
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That's not fair. Suddenly some TV show, movie or newspaper headline will attach a significance to or even stigmatizes a word or phrase that was perfectly innocent to most if not all of the world. Look at the word gay.
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