Is this racist?

It's common with dog people (or animal people in general) to use that sort
of grammar:

I work cattle
I race greyhounds
I run beagles
I show Quarter Horses

These wouldn't sound right with "with" inserted.

Doing a web search with the words "black tan hunt" pulls up a plethora of
websites..all about hunting dogs.
I think the OP is just way off base here!


"llama mama" wrote in message
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Wendy Marsden wrote in
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I'm driving behind a white GMC Jimmy SUV and it has exactly one bumper
sticker on it that says, "I hunt black and tans". I'm looking at this
with my mouth open thinking they MUST be talking about dogs, they
can't really be talking about lynching, can they? I look closer to
see if there's a tiny "with" in there. Nope, but there's a silhouette
which I finally figure out (at a stop light when I can study it) is a
dog barking up a tree trunk.

well, i can see how a nonhunter or non-dogperson might read it as
racist (since a lot of people don't know black & tan is a breed), but i
doubt the person with the bumpersticker or the maker of the sticker meant
it as racist. while it's poor grammar to leave of the 'with', it's common
convention particularly on bumperstickers. it's not meant as a double
entendre in this case, anyway.
BTW, i've never heard a racist remark using 'tan' as a derogatory term.
lee
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