http://www.popfi.com/2012/07/26/greek-athlete-kicked-out-of-the-olympics-for-racist-tweet/ Interesting and offbeat content daily Fri, 17 May 2013 10:10:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.popfi.com/2012/07/26/greek-athlete-kicked-out-of-the-olympics-for-racist-tweet/comment-page-1/#comment-15748 Cop Fired For Using Racial Slurs Against Professional Baseball Player » Popular Fidelity » Unusual Stuff Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:42:34 +0000 http://www.popfi.com/?p=19089#comment-15748 [...] New England is a pretty strange place, and place in New England is a weirder polyglot than Massachusetts.  Part Puritan, part drunken reveler, Massachusetts is where big city liberalism meets backwoods country conservatism and the educated and the poor meet–and frequently butt heads.  Boston is also widely known as a very racist town, as Boston Red Sox player Carl Crawford is finding out first hand.  Officer John Perrault of the Leominster Police Department has been fired for using a racist insult to describe Carl Crawford.  The term Perrault used for Crawford was “Monday,” as in, “Everyone hates Mondays.”  Apparently, in New England, that’s a fairly common derogatory term directed at black people. [...]

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