"Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon." - Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
"England Expects that every man will do his duty." - Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
Aunt Jemima and the Picaninnies.
Give an africoon a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach an africoon to fish and he will die of starvation waiting for the next gibs me dat.
How about Coongarden?
Well there already was a coon band called "The Four Tops", so how about "The Five Mop-heads"?
"The Unibrow Quintet"?
"Five Spade Flush...Down the Toilet"?
When, long ago, the gods created Earth. In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next designed; Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man, th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure, filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger.
- H.P. Lovecraft - "On the Creation of Niggers" (1912)
They aren't American coons, they're Australian. OD/OR maybe?
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If ANYONE is owed reparations, its Confederate sons and daughters!