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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Yes, any time you refer to a black person as 'Sam' you are being racist. maybe its just a british thing but 'Sam' is short for 'sam**' which in the UK will get you beaten to a bloody pulp and you will deserve the beating.
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I'm trying to figure out what the ** is, and I can't figure it out.
An interesting fact I was just recently learning about was how in both Canada and the US, every railway porter was typically called 'George' by customers, a reference to George Pullman, who developed the Pullman Sleeping Car, which were almost always staffed by black employees. The struggle to actually be able to display nametags in the car was a long-standing union labour dispute, only resolved in 1945 in Canada. There's definitely a history of avoiding using people's actual names as a way of enforcing ideas of social rank.