On 18/04/2016 06:07, Col wrote:

On 17/04/2016 20:13, Jumper wrote:
On 17/04/2016 10:48, Col wrote:


What is a 'nurse of ebony'?
Is this your way of saying that she was black?

In my current manifestation I identify myself as a person of British
ivory.

It's a pity you don't live in perfect harmony.

Been reading CB's latest thread on ukmc?

Oh, and we even got a reference to 'Mammy Two Shoes', the black
housemaid character from the Tom & Jerry cartoons

I'd didn't realise she'd ever been named?

who is these days
widely consdered to be a racial stereotype.

Surely that applies to a lot of TV characters though, especially from
older shows?



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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham