on 5/2/03 1:50 AM, Henri Yandell at bayard at generationjava.com wrote: >> Tavis' guest mentioned that he had also done a word search for Kike, >> Mick, Hebe, Cracker, Wetback, Spick, Dago, etc and found nothing. The >> "N-Word" (for you purists) was the only racial slur he could find. >> >> Still with me? Here's the fun part. > > I don't believe these are very old terms and they've never been considered > legal words for the people [not that I know what all of them mean, > implying they are probably just US based words and not that old]. The > N-Word as you like to say is a latin descent word I assume and although I > don't know the derivation of who introduced it seems quite likely it could > have come from the medical community and/or the Romans.
Each of them go back at least 50 years. John Roberts | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
