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I only posted this topic in response to the Baltimore riots and the Black communities claim that "Thug" is the "new N-word". There was actually a Baltimore city councilman who claimed on Fox News that the rioters should not be called thugs but "college students". *facepalm* 

 

 

Apparently, all of this seems to lead back to an interview with Richard Sherman in which he claimed that the word was racist. Go figure.

 

It's all context.   I think what Sherman was talking about was that when people use the word, so often they are talking about black people.   "Thug" has taken on a certain connotation.   But again, the word itself isn't racist or racial, it's when it's used in a certain context, it becomes a racial code word.   In my own experience, I've heard people use that word in certain conversations, and it's always applied to black people. 

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