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  Sambo (ethnic slur) at AllExperts
Sambo is considered a derogatory term for an African American, Black, or sometimes a South Asian person.
Thus, the use of "Sambo" by whites as a racist term went from being unintentional to open and derogatory.
In American animation in the 1930s and 1940s, the use of "Sambo" imagery was common in all the major animation houses.
en.allexperts.com /e/s/sa/sambo_(ethnic_slur).htm   (801 words)

  
 Sambo - Sambo (martial art), a martial art developed in USSR. Sambo (ethnic slur) � The Story of Little. Sambo, a ...
Sambo Kraków Prowadzący: Alexander Horbatyuk Adres: Klub BKS "WANDA" ul..
Sambo jest podatne na zmiany- jest ciągle udoskonalane,.
Sambo to inaczej SAMozashchita Bez Oruzhia, czyli "Samoobrona bez broni" (ang..
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  Sambo (ethnic slur) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sambo is currently considered a derogatory term for an African American, Black, or sometimes a South Asian person.
Thus, the use of "Sambo" by whites as a racist term went from being unintentional to open and derogatory.
In American animation in the 1930s and 1940s, the use of "Sambo" imagery was common in all the major animation houses.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sambo_(ethnic_slur)   (751 words)

  
 sambo - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Sambo may have one of the following meanings.
For a martial art developed in USSR, see Sambo (martial art).
For an ethnic slur, see Sambo (ethnic slur).
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/sambo   (54 words)

  
 Sambo - Sambo (martial art), a martial art developed in USSR. Sambo (ethnic slur) � The Story of Little. Sambo, a ...
Sambo Sambo chce wyjść z cienia judo 19-04-2006 22:26:15.
Sambo's was an amalgam of Sam and Bo, and as part of their marketing strategy the founders.
Sambo jest podatne na zmiany- jest ciągle udoskonalane,.
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 Roadfood.com Forums - Sambo's Restaurant's(non-Political)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
One of the tie-ins with the "Little Black Sambo" story was the "Tiger Butter", a whipped butter (with maybe a bit of honey in it) served with every stack of pancakes or waffles.
I wasn't a diehard chainavoider back in those days but even with Sambo's being the closest restaurant to where I was living back then, I never found much that appealed to me. For a treat, I took my wife and son to IHOP for pancakes.
The Sambo's in Lincoln City, Oregon was not part of the national chain and changed its name to Lil' Sambos's to avoid confusion and legal trouble.
www.roadfood.com /forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=10405   (1214 words)

  
 sambo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Zimbabwe: Sambo's Secret PackageAllAfrica.com, Washington - Oct 13, 2006BELEAGUERED Premiership chief executive Chris Sambo was in the eye of a storm yesterday after stunning revelations that he received a $420 million golden...
Zimbabwe: Sambo's PSL Future in DoubtAllAfrica.com, Washington - Oct 12, 2006THE future of beleaguered Premier Soccer League chief executive Chris Sambo hung in the balance last night as the top-flight body's management committee met in...
’Sambo’ to oppose McKernanGAA Football & Hurling, Ireland - Oct 16, 2006Terence ’Sambo’ McNaughton and Dominic McKinley are to oppose the outgoing Jim McKernan for the Antrim hurling manager’s job.
www.33beat.com /sambo.html   (253 words)

  
 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Sambo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Sambo (martial art), a martial art developed in USSR.
Sambo from The Story of Little Black Sambo, a book
Not to be confused with Samba, an Afro-Brazilian dancing/music style.
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Sambo   (67 words)

  
 "to call a spade a spade"
Rosalie Maggio, in _The Bias-Free Word-Finder_, writes: "The expression is associated with a racial slur and is to be avoided", and recommends using "to speak plainly" or other alternatives instead.
In another entry, she writes: "Although by definition and derivation 'niggardly' and 'nigger' are completely unrelated, 'niggardly' is too close for comfort to a word with profoundly negative associations.
In the late 1970s in the U.S., a boycott of the (now defunct) Sambo's restaurant chain was organized, even though the name "Sambo's" was a combination of the names of its two founders and did not come from the offensive word for dark-skinned person.
www.yaelf.com /aueFAQ/miftocllspdspd.shtml   (440 words)

  
 Sambo Information
Sambo (martial art), a martial art developed in USSR.
Sambo, a British and Irish slang word for a sandwich.
Sambo, a Swedish word similar to common-law marriage (lit.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Sambo   (63 words)

  
 Gothamist: How Much Is Too PC?
"Ethnic slur" complaints are usually brought by people who have experienced very little (if any) discrimination or ethnic hostility in their lives, but desperately want to.
a slur is a slur and you should not make excuses for one group and not another.
I was told growing up that when the anglos (never considered a slur) arrived in Texas, they were often observed by the native Texans singing a song that included the words "where the green grass grows" and somehow the nickname came out of that.
www.gothamist.com /archives/2004/02/10/how_much_is_too_pc.php   (6169 words)

  
 sambo | | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
Sambo (ethnic slur)Sambo from The Story of Little Black Sambo, a bookSambo's, a restaurant chain.An Irish slang word for a "sandwich"Not to be confused with Samba, an Afro-Brazilian dancing/music style.
Sambo (самбо) ist eine russisch-sowjetische Kampfsportart, die neben eigenen auch Elemente des Jiu-Jitsu und Judo enthält.Sambo sollte schnell und effektiv erlernbar sein, und die traditionelle fernöstliche Kampfkünste mit »modernen« wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen kombinieren.
Le Sambo (Самбо) est un sport de combat créé en URSS dans les années 1930 mélangeant principalement le judo et la lutte.
www.babylon.com /definition/sambo/All   (186 words)

  
 The Racial Slur Database
Christians in the times of WWII when the Jews were most hated used this slur as a reason to hate Jews.
The slur is also used by some Native Americans against whites: "moon" as in pale, and "cricket" as in whites have big eyes and gangly legs.
Slur perhaps originally used derisively against the Dutch, calling them "John Cheese" (they made/ate a lot of cheese); Non-English speaking Dutch called back to the Americans, yelling "Yankee" (mispronunciation).
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 Irish America by Maureen Dezell | Irish America by Maureen Dezell
The logo was the exception that proves the rule that unflattering ethnic images are far too offensive to use in the serious American business of selling.
As the country's oldest, largest ethnic group, the Irish have been secure enough for long enough to shrug off anachronisms and hackneyed stereotypes that might raise hackles among others.
The Irishman onstage was Sambo with a shillelagh.
www.randomhouse.com /anchor/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385495967&view=excerpt   (1081 words)

  
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The tale of Sambo, a boy who uses his wits to survive after being stalked by tigers, was a hit in Japan when it was first published here in 1953.
In the late 1890s Helen Bannerman, a Scot, wrote Little Black Sambo for her children while they were living in India.
It is too many relatively small ethnic groups trying to share the same country.
www.silveradomedia.com /blogpics/mandomarticles.txt   (1775 words)

  
 Japan Today - Book Kitchen - 'Little Black Sambo' flies off shelves
Little Black Sambo was initially regarded as a book that positively portrayed fl characters, especially in comparison to the more negative books of the time that depicted fls as simple and uncivilized.
As it is, Little Black Sambo makes his simple and direct appeal in the great realm of make-believe without paying the slightest attention to the unities or caring in the least about anything but the amusement of the little boys and girls for whom he was so obviously created." (p.
Since then, it has thankfully become less acceptable to use such ethnic slurs, so when their use does crop up this relentlessly, whether it was hatched in a nest of casual/accepted use or not, it remains hurtful, most especially for people who were--or can still be--forced to wear those labels.
www.japantoday.com /jp/book/217   (7477 words)

  
 Informat.io on Sambo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Look up Sambo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Sambo, a British and Irish slang word for a sandwich.
Sambo, a Swedish word similar to common-law marriage.
www.informat.io /?title=Sambo   (117 words)

  
 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> blackface   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Lexicographers consider it likely that the word golliwog was the origin of the ethnic slur wog.
Blackface was one of the influences in the development of characters like Mickey Mouse.
The caption read, "I's simple Sambo and I's running for the big house." Steele has been criticized by other African Americans who consider him a "race traitor" due to his conservative politics.
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/blackface   (4814 words)

  
 Ethnic Bitches - Free Ebony, Asian, Latina and Interracial movie and picture galleries best ethnic slur
goat uses a racial slur to brag to a mouse...
I don't really see it as any kind of "ethnic slur", besides, even if it were, why the heck would it...
Prospal escaped suspension Thursday for his ethnic slur against Montreal Canadiens defenseman Patrice Brisebois, but...
www.ethnicbitches.com /ethnic/ethnic-slur.htm   (399 words)

  
 BAGnewsNotes: Sambo Joe And The Visual Blogosphere
The racial slur, if there is one, consists of an attack on white people who pander to an audience by trying to create an image of something that does not exist.
Incidentally, she is also slamming Clinton by depicting him with 'sambo' when, as The Bag states, his affinity for the fl community is so widely known.
I also remember visiting "Santa" one year and getting a little book about "Sambo." On the way back upstairs, a little fl girl was coming down to see Santa with her mom.
bagnewsnotes.typepad.com /bagnews/2006/08/sambo_joe_and_t.html   (6743 words)

  
 The Debate Link: 10/23/2005 - 10/30/2005
And I believe that the use of racial slurs should be prima facia proof that a given speaker should be expelled from our collective community of political allies--again, not as a matter of law, but of free association.
He's playing a Sambo!" What I'm objecting to is criticizing a person who legitimately deserves criticism in a manner designed to play on particular base emotive reactions, without a direct and explicit link.
Steele is not factually a Sambo, and as long as that is true it is immoral to label him as one.
dsadevil.blogspot.com /2005_10_23_archive.html   (6057 words)

  
 sambo - OneLook Dictionary Search
Sambo (2), sambo (1) : Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
Sambo : Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
Phrases that include sambo: commando sambo, little fl sambo, sambo creek, sambo kyodan, sambo kyodan zen, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=sambo   (231 words)

  
 O'Connell Street
Paddys played themselves as well as Sambos in minstrel shows, dancing and shuffling in flface to a blend of Irish fiddle music and African American songs.
Both Paddy and Sambo were childlike, musical, hapless, exuberant, and irrationally loyal to their employers, the music historian William H. Williams observes his insightful, delightful study of Irish image in popular song lyrics, 'Twas only an Irishman's Dream.
Harrigan and Hart productions teemed with ethnic stereotypes of all sorts, but a star among them was Dan Mulligan, hero of at least eight shows.
www.oconnellstreet.com /clover.htm   (1870 words)

  
 Sambo
Sambo may have one of the following meanings.
For the children's book The Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman, published in 1898.
For an ethnic slur, see Sambo (ethnic slur).
www.culturecentric.com /Life-S/Sambo.php   (93 words)

  
 The Golliwog Caricature
This racial antagonism resulted from many factors, including: the arrival of increasing numbers of colored immigrants; minorities' unwillingness to accommodate themselves to old patterns of racial and ethnic subordination; and, the fear among many Whites that England was losing its national character.
Golliwog is a racial slur in Germany, England, Ireland, Greece, and Australia.
Wog is both an ethnic slur and a racial epithet.
www.ferris.edu /jimcrow/golliwog   (2715 words)

  
 Sambo - The Story of Little Black Sambo
Everyone saw the similarities between sambo and judo, but no-one was prepared for Sambo, sport wrestling, permitting the application of painful holds;
Sambo (ethnic slur) · The Story of Little Sambo, a British and Irish slang word for a sandwich.
Among these stories LITTLE BLACK SAMBO, which was made up on a long railway And the Tiger said to him, "Little Black Sambo, I'm going to eat you up!
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 Law.com - Upset of N.J. Verdict in Bias Suit Over Anti-Semitic Remarks Incenses Bar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The appeals court found that the comments occurred against the department's background of prank playing, ethnic humor and "chops busting" in which the plaintiff was a hearty participant.
And while the Supreme Court has said that a single slur can rise to the level of discrimination if uttered by a supervisor with clout, the "dirty Jews" comment was isolated, not directed at Cutler and not made by a supervisor, the appeals court said.
In that LAD case, according to NELA's interpretation, the court suggested anti-Semitic comments were not entitled to the same protection as ethnic slurs against other minorities.
www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1172743392518   (1146 words)

  
 Tolerance.org: Racist Slurs Taint U.S. Sports
The paradox of that idea is striking: In the 21st century an NFL team is still known by an ethnic slur crafted during the nation's frontier days.
A bounty hunter could prove he had killed a native by turning in a scalp, which often were bloody and called "redskins." This bit of etymology was part of a July 2000 editorial in Maine's Portland Press Herald explaining why it banned the team name from its sports pages.
It may be true that stereotyping nonwhites is as American as apple pie, and such deeply ingrained cultural habits die hard, but the lack of public outrage at these continuing racial slurs is a bit surprising.
www.tolerance.org /news/article_tol.jsp?id=1047   (952 words)

  
 http://www.qando.net/ - George Allen’s Macaca Moment
Critics are claiming that the word is a European slur of people from North Africa, of which Allen might have been aware, since his Mother is French Tunisian.
The "Macaque" slur means "a Negro (originally) or a person of North-African origin".
Perhaps he did hear this obscure European slur in his youth 3 or 4 decades ago — he almost certainly hasn't heard it since — and it arose from his subconscious while he was grasping for a nickname for the fellow.
www.qando.net /details.aspx?Entry=4417   (7399 words)

  
 The Tom Caricature
In many African American communities "Uncle Tom" is a slur used to disparage a Black person who is humiliatingly subservient or deferential to White people.
In recent years the "Uncle Tom" slur has been directed against Christopher Darden, the Black member of the prosecution's team in the O.J. Simpson murder trial; Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer; Karl Malone, the Utah Jazz basketball player; and Colin Powell.
The "Uncle Tom" slur has even been appropriated by other ethnic groups to exert in-group pressures on their members.
www.ferris.edu /news/jimcrow/tom   (3882 words)

  
 Kitty Renamed to Duck Debate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
After choosing the name Tar Baby on Tuesday, workers began to question whether the name, considered by some as a racial slur, was a good choice.
Although the workers meant the name to be a reference to the puddle of liquid asphalt where the kitten was found, some were concerned the name would be taken the wrong way, said Rick Chaboudy, executive director for the Humane Society of North Pinellas.
Little Black Sambo was a little boy in India.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/770849/posts   (1211 words)

  
 Race Matters - The Garbage Man: Why I Collect Racist Objects
Only rarely are children allowed in the room, and adults -- preferably their parents -- are encouraged to accompany them.
Inevitably, there will be a "racial incident," -- a racial slur hurled, a fight blamed on "the other," -- and there will be no relevant foundation laid for dealing with the problem, other than hiring me or a similar "diversity consultant" to restore order.
I showed them the ugliness, the Mammy, the Sambo, the Brute, the caricatured sores foisted on fl Americans.
www.racematters.org /jimcrowmuseum.htm   (6232 words)

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