"Canadian" is a racial slur in Texas

[Superflyer]

This is so weird to me, I am a racial slur and did not know it.
One thing that was not covered in the article was, the guy that sent out the email said that he did not know that Canadian was a racial slur but it never said what he actually thought it was as there were no actual Canadians on the jury.

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by Resolute 14

Well, Vancouver better hope they never put an NHL team in Alabama, or there might be a lynch mob waiting for them as their charter hits the tarmac...

I like the direction your taking, but I think Montreal would have worked better

[Kaon]

My sister lived in Waco for 6 years and recently moved back up here and from what I saw it was used quite commonly. My brother-in-laws family got a real kick out of the fact that they actually knew a Canadian, or were around a Canadian when they used the term to describe blacks. I thought it was kind of stupid and likely just a Waco thing, but maybe not.

Another one was Cuddymobile. (sp?) Which I found out was anything similar in shape to a crown victoria and was usually pimped out and driven by black people. Again something that sounded so stupid I just assumed it was a Waco thing.

From urban dictionary: 3.cuddycuddy is a crip slang for the word buddy. they dont want to use the letter B reffering it to blood so they replace it with the letter C for crip.
sup cuddy...crippin aint easy but its fun

[driveway]

I find it worrying that people are so desperate to denigrate blacks that they actually have to invent new 'code' slurs so they can continue to be bigoted idiots.

On the plus side, I now feel like I can keep it a little more real, I am Canadian after all.

[RougeUnderoos]

I"ve got a codeword or two for the people that would do this.

Anyway, I know it's a terrible thing and racism is not a laughing matter, but this whole thing sort of makes me laugh. I mean it's just so goddamn stupid. Just to think that these dummies cooked up this idea and they think they are pulling one over on everybody. I have to shake my head.

[bradster57]

I read somewhere that it was a racial slur against French Canadians in Louisiana back in the day because they had darker skin? Then it degenerated into a slur against blacks. Who knows...

[J pold]

So than we can call white, racist, rednecks… Americans? Oh wait…

[nickerjones]

ahhhhhahhahahahaha i dunno why this is funny? but im married to a canadian and my friends alwasy give me a hard time , saying nick has married a canadian and then bust out laughing ( when we are drunk) but my wife is white but for some reason this is funny

[Vulcan]

I can see American waiters stereotyping Canadians as I think we picked up a reputation as poor tippers. We didn't use to do much tipping as our service people were supposedly paid better than Americans and it was reflected in the prices we paid for our meals etc. So we'd go to the States and say wow these restaurant prices are cheap and not cotton on to the fact that the service people relied on their tips for a decent wage. My guess is anybody who was a poor tipper or wasn't one of us could be called a Canadian.

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Yeahhhhhhh, where my Canadians at?

[evman150]

Originally Posted by Vulcan

I can see American waiters stereotyping Canadians as I think we picked up a reputation as poor tippers. We didn't use to do much tipping as our service people were supposedly paid better than Americans and it was reflected in the prices we paid for our meals etc. So we'd go to the States and say wow these restaurant prices are cheap and not cotton on to the fact that the service people relied on their tips for a decent wage. My guess is anybody who was a poor tipper or wasn't one of us could be called a Canadian.

Woah, woah, what?!

And I really think your theory for the origin of the slur is poor. I don`t think Canadians are bad tippers, I have never heard that stereotype before.

[Vulcan]

Originally Posted by evman150

Woah, woah, what?!

And I really think your theory for the origin of the slur is poor. I don`t think Canadians are bad tippers, I have never heard that stereotype before.

We aren't bad tippers now but forty years ago it was a different story as our culture was different and we may still have this reputation.