In article , Martin Sykes
writes

And some people just go stupid. Do you remember the primary scholl which
banned 'baa baa black sheep' as being racially offensive?

Some time ago, a customer laid into a local supermarket manager about
the use of the term 'black pepper' !!!!!!!!

When I lived in Jamaica in the late sixties, people of my skin colour
were referred to as pigs. Or, more accurately, 'pork men'. But we didn't
get all upset . . . we just accepted it.
--
Jane Ransom in Lancaster.
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