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Slur	Represents	Reasons/Origins
Skinflint	Blacks	Skin appearance related.
Ainu	Japanese Aboriginals	Originally, a word for the native Japanese islanders from Hokkaido, but now means roughly a "primitive" person. Usually look more European than their Japanese counterparts, i.e., more hairy and fair skinned. Not really derogatory.
Ashy	Blacks	When their skin gets dry it can tend to look ashy.
Bean Burrito	Hispanics	Common Hispanic food is bean burritos and the coloring of the beans is similar to the coloring of their skin.
Blue-Eyed Devil	Whites	Whites primarily with blue eyes are said to be the most evil. Especially since their skin is so pale, it looks scary to others as their blue eyes stare out at them.
Brownie	Blacks	Skin color, like the favorite treat.
Burnt Pizza	Italians	Slur towards dark skinned Italians
Burnt Rice	Asians	Darker-skinned Asians.
Burnt Toast	Blacks	Skin color can resemble that of a burnt piece of bread.
Butterhead	Japanese	Used by U.S. Marines in the Pacific Theater of WWII, and some survivors of it to this day. Refers to yellow skin tone of Japanese soldiers. Expression appears in some U.S. movies made during the war.
Cherry Nigger	Native Americans	Color of their skin.
Choco	Blacks	Short for chocolate, in reference to skin color.
Coal-Miner	Blacks	A Russian term for blacks, which originated because of their dark skin which looks like it is covered in coal dust. Pronounced "shahktor" in Russian.
Coconut	Blacks	Blacks, Hispanics, Filipino, Arabs, etc. Mainly used to describe dark-skinned people who are perceived as trying to be "white"...brown on the outside, white on the inside.
Coconut Nigger	Pacific Islanders	They're dark-skinned, hence the "Nigger", and they're from places where there are coconuts.
Colored	Blacks	Skin color. Probably not a very good slur, as it's one of the words of NAACP.
Cricket	Blacks	Color of skin vs. cricket's color (brown/black). Pure blooded Blacks having "large fish eyes, dark brown skin, and long legs like a cricket." Could also refer to Blacks that stay up all night playing loud thumping music, real common in the industrial Midwest.
Darkie	Blacks	Skin color.
Demi-nigger	Arabs	Somewhat lighter skin tone than Blacks.
Dootie	Blacks	Refers to their dootie-brown skin.
Fan Kuei	Whites	Chinese for "ocean ghosts". Refers to skin color.
Farq	Whites	Arab word, meaning "chicken," used to describe whites and light skinned arabs as in weak and fragile
Flour Bag	Whites	For the pale, pasty skin.
Frostbite	Blacks	when one gets frostbite, their skin becomes dark
Ghoul	Whites	Ghouls are said to be pale skinned like a dead person
Graham Cracker	Mixed Races	White/Black mix or a light skinned black who acts white
Guerro	Whites	Used by Hispanic-Americans. Light skinned light haired person.
Guinea/Ginney	Italians	Pronounced "gi-nee." Came from "Guinea Negro" and originally referred to any Black or any person of mixed ancestry. This dates back to the 1740's. By the 1890s it was being applied to Italians--almost certainly because they tend to have darker skin than Anglo-Saxons/Germans. By 1911 the term began being applied to Hispanics, although the reference to Italians is the most common. Derived from Sicilian immigrants who paid in Italian currency, Guineas. Used in the film 'True Romance' as separate from WOPs from Northern Italy, and in The Godfather by a Northern Italian character when referring to Southern Italians and Sicilians. Source on origin
High Yellow	Blacks	Light-skinned black person. Adjective, generally used by blacks in describing blacks with a light complexion
Ice Monkey	Finnish	Because of their clear skin and facial features.
Indonigger	Indians	Indian who tries to be black, or is darker in skin.
Inky	Blacks	Referring to the color of skin. Used mainly by darker-skinned Blacks to lighter-skinned Blacks. Also Ink Baby or Inkspot.
Jaundy Boy	Asians	Comes from Jaundice (Hepatitis), which turns your skin yellow.
Jet	Blacks	For their "jet black" skin. Also for the black-orienied weekly magazine JET.
Jigaboo	Blacks	Very dark-skinned Black people. Usually used among lighter-skinned African-Americans to refer to ones of very dark complexion. Made popular in the 1975 movie "Cooley High." Often shortened to "Jig."
Lamp Shade	Jews	The Nazis had lamp shades made from Jewish skin
Laposta	Italians	Italian slang for lazy person with a small dick. In some areas its used to describe someone unusually skinny, pedophilia, and I've even heard homosexual. The word has different meaning based on where its said, but it all references Italians.
Latte	Mixed Races	White and usually Mexican due to color of skin being similar to the coffee drink.
Leche	Whites	Spanish for milk; color of white skin
Lemonhead	Asians	Skin color.
Mayonnaise	Whites	Skin color.
Melanzana	Blacks	Italian for "eggplant" - very dark black people have a purplish tint to their skin, so does eggplant.
Milk	Whites	Due to the light color of their skin
Milky	Whites	Referring to their racism and white skin.
Mishwa	Blacks	Means "barbequed" or "grilled" in Arabic, blacks for their dark skin. Mishweya for females.
Mocha	Arabs	Skin color (not quite black).
Moolie	Blacks	Shortened from Melanzane, meaning "eggplant" in Italian. Eggplants have black skin.
Mud Duck	Blacks	Dark skin. See Mud People.
Niggeroid	Blacks	Usually light skinned mixed breed black and any other race.
Off-White	Mediterraneans	Darker skin yet still called white

Oil Slick	Blacks	A very dark skinned black person who is sweaty, making his skin slippery.
Oyebo	Whites	It literally means peeled skin. It is what the Yoruba people of Nigeria used to call the first Europeans they saw.
Pakeha	New Zealanders	White New Zealanders. Not generally seen as derogatory. The word derives from 'pakepakeha'...mythical fair-skinned human-like creatures and now means any New Zealander with predominantly European ancestry. Was referenced in the news recently when some white Kiwis tried to get it changed on their census forms because it was racist - "Pakeha" translates to "White pig", a reference both to what the Maoris thought of the first English settlers, and the way the same settlers tasted when eaten - salty, like the wild pigs they also ate.
Paleface	Whites	The brim of a cowboy's hat would make an odd suntan across his face. The bottom half would be tanned dark, while the top half remained pale because it was shaded by the brim. The Native American sign for a white person was wiping the index finger across their own face along the bridge of the nose, indicating the border between dark and light skin on a cowboy's face. They came to call the white men "pale faces".
Paperbag	Creole	The light color blacks in South Louisiana, mainly around New Orleans (Creoles), skin is the color of a brown paper bag.
Pastyface	Whites	Used mainly by Blacks to refer to a really pale White person. The vanilla, creamy color of Whites' skin that seldom gets exposed to the sun. Derogatory in nature.
Pinkaloid	Whites	Refers to skin color
Pinky	Whites	Skin color closer to pink
Polar Bear	Whites	Refers to their skin tone.
Powder	Whites	Skin color. Might be from the albino guy in the movie Powder.
Red (1)	Native Americans	Skin color.
Redskin	Native Americans	The term Redskin, came from two places, the skin color, then the cruel torture of skinning Native Americans for a bounty. Since their skin was red they started saying "red skins."
Saltine	Whites	Same color as skin. Same sentiments expressed as in "cracker."
Sambo (1)	Indians	Derives from the traditional children's story, "The Story of Little Black Sambo" about an Asian Indian who had dark skin.
Sammie	Somalians	Used by Americans in 1992-1993 when in Somalia. Also known as skinnies
Shadow	Blacks	Refers to color of skin
Shine/Shiner	Blacks	In reference to the shine their skin can sometimes give off. Also a 1920's main occupation, shoe shiners.
Shitskin	Blacks	Color of skin.
Skinhead	Whites	A popular white supremacist group.
Skinny	Somalians	Because of the time in 1992 where 300,000 somalians were starved. Used in the film Black Hawk Down (2002).
Slim	Somalians	Same as "Skinnie"
Smoke	Blacks	From the similarity between their skin color and the color of smoke. Also from the way that they were said to be able to sneak around quietly, entering a room "like smoke".
Spook	Blacks	Because of their dark skin, which can blend into the night, making them ghost-like.
Suntan	Blacks	Refers to their dark skin color.
Superfly	Pacific Islanders	WWF wrestler "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka. Could be used for any dark-skinned individual.
Tar Baby	Blacks	Skin color. From the "Uncle Remus" (Br'er Rabbit) story.
Vamp	Whites	Possibly the lack of melanin resembles the pale skin of a vampire. Another reason could be vampires need blood, and whites tend to look cold and in need of a blood transfusion.
Vegemite	Australian Aboriginals	Aboriginal skin colour resembles popular Australian sandwich spread
Wheat Thin	Whites	Represents skinny white women with a tan.
Yellow	Asians	Skin color (as compared to Caucasians).
Yellow Monkey	Asians	Skin Color as well as referring to the Asian race as monkeys, from Vietnam.

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