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boppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 10:35 PM
Response to Reply #36
42. owned is not the same as *owned*, there's emphasis on ownership in the latter
Not outright racist off the hook, so lets look into follow ups:

Post 41 asks if it was a veiled (or not so veiled) slavery reference.
Post 91 notes that it can be a dangerous word.

Now, lets look at overall thread context:

The OP was a cheer thread, pointing out Barack's successes. The particular sub-thread brought out the following:
"bought and paid for"
allusions to pickpockets
..and several points noting that there is no such thing as an anti-establishment candidate (a minor tautology).

I'm not seeing blatant race-baiting (or assertions that you had done as such), but a pattern of using similar terminology could suggest so.
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