![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes a word's troubling origins are forgotten. And sometimes, this means that certain terms and phrases can change their meaning over time. Of course, the nature of the English language (or any language, really) is that it's almost constantly changing. ![]() Over time, we forgot about those definitions, and have gone back to using the phrases as usual - but when we do so, we're carrying their secret racist history with us. While that's horrible, it's also not the end of the story - many common phrases we use every day, which did not have initially racist origins, were then repurposed to have racist meanings somewhere along the line. But what I didn't know until recently is that in the U.S., a lot of our most popular phrases have racist origins. Have you ever used a common phrase, one you've heard a thousand times before, and suddenly wondered, "Where did that expression even come from, anyway?" I know I have. ![]()
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