Fashion is a silly thing then or now? I'm quite glad the use of racist language has 'gone out of fashion' - there was a time not so long ago that the N and P words would be used on prime time TV.
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it isn't clear he is particularly bothered, he merely commented on it
Not in Barnsley they don't, the North hasn't fallen to multi-cultural enrichment like London yet
This is a joke right? Or is Birmingham and leister not north enough?
They're the Midlands? No they're not the North at all lol
wasnt that long ago people would name their dog the N word or blackie
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Yeah 1940s for the dog and people call their dogs blackie because they're um black. Not due to some racial slur.
Same reason my cats called ginge. Did I do it to slur ginger haired people, no.
Get a grip
Outside of London is north, even brighton.
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Could be a Dambusters thing.
I have yet to see a none black haired dog called blackie? Lots of dalmations called spotty also , one neighbours got an albino alsatian german shepherd that he has to keep muzzled around other dogs 
the dogs name is Chris wilson.
the dogs name is Chris wilson.
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"Of colour". That's OK and fine.
"Coloured". Call the police, a racist is speaking.
I merely quoted the article, and that merely quoted the witness. What a palaver... Do people really proof read their everyday speech like this?
Bradford?
Yet more obvious 'concealed in plain sight racism' from Chris Wilson!
Of course Chris probably knows the etymology of the word 'palaver' and therefore he knows it came into its current use, in English, via West Africa where it was originally a word used by the colonial oppressors from Portugal to describe talking to the natives. It then became a word used to describe the disorganised chaotic local meetings to sort out quarrels, arbitration etc between the natives often held whilst thoose concerned were speaking lots of different dialects.... Hence 'what a palaver'
Hence Chris was clearly making some sort of derogatory racialised social commentary with his use of the word in this context.
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I thought it would fall on stony ground, I rarely fail to be impressed by your breadth of knowledge 
I was quite content to have a bit of none PC private fun until you put your motty in <LOL>
I was quite content to have a bit of none PC private fun until you put your motty in <LOL>well as long as you're clear in your enunciation (you don't want the "b" to be mistaken for a "p" when shouting out that name in the park!), then I'm not sure it is wrong to call a black dog "blackie"
I don't doubt that a small minority of people (a few white, middle class, guardian reader types) might object to it, but meh...
Provide an objective and rational reason why the approved polite word in the past ("coloured") was racist and the approved polite word of the present ("black") isn't.
A rhetorical question, obviously, as there isn't an objective and rational reason. At best, it's just fashion. At worst, it's malicious.
For bonus points, send an email to the NAACP explaining that they're racist against themselves because you say so. I'm sure they'll love to have you explain that to them.
Give it a bit more time and "black" will be out of fashion. "African American" is coming into fashion, explicitly including people who are neither African nor American because fashion doesn't have to make any sense and identity politics based on a trivial biological characteristic never makes any sense.