Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
Lol...’pot, kettle and...erm...black’.

I ask again...and ‘Sooty’ was a pejorative term for black people when?
Everyone knows the history of ‘n****r’ being used contemptuously by certain white people towards black people. Can you honestly say you’ve heard people disparagingly referred to as ‘Sooty’?
I certainly haven’t. Never heard ‘Sooties Out’ in my life...or seen it written on a subway wall.
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I refer my learned friend to that estimable televisual epic "Love thy Neighbour" when I recall it frequently being used by Jack Smethurst