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Feds: racial slurs, discrimination go covert with coded words

Code words are used to identify ethnic and racial groups to skirt racist claims
Via Chicago Tribune,
270 Reads | | Post a commentPublished June 30, 2008 - 6:49 AM
Hyde Park, Chicago, Ill. —  

Terms such as "welfare queens" and "crime-ridden neighborhoods" have long been used to refer to African-Americans, Dawson said. In recent years, other analysts said, discussions about patriotism have increasingly become coded with phrases such as "full-blooded Americans" used to exclude certain ethnic groups, particularly Latino immigrants.

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