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  • In an era when Colored men were chronically stereotyped as racial inferiors in American cinema: chicken-stealing Coons, crap-shooting Sambos, dangerous Bucks (today's urban predators and gangsta rappers), groveling, lazy, bewildered Toms (today's homeless Black men), stammering, good-for-nothing Stepin Fetchits (Stepin Fetchit was the first Colored "actor" to become a millionaire pretending to be a buffoon), dimwitted Amos 'n Andies and Eat' n Sleeps ...

    Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Dreams From My Grandfather 2009

  • How about mcsenile's fundraising expertise (as well as crap-shooting trips) in Vegas: $400K here, $2 million there.

    New Robocalls From McCain Campaign And RNC Slam Obama's Patriotism, Charge He Put "Hollywood Above America" 2009

  • For, finding that I was unable to manage the crap-shooting episode, I turned it over to my wife, who, as a Southern girl, was presumably an expert on the technique and terminology of that great sectional pastime.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

  • For, finding that I was unable to manage the crap-shooting episode, I turned it over to my wife, who, as a Southern girl, was presumably an expert on the technique and terminology of that great sectional pastime.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 1922

  • For, finding that I was unable to manage the crap-shooting episode, I turned it over to my wife, who, as a Southern girl, was presumably an expert on the technique and terminology of that great sectional pastime.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 1918

  • Faintly up from below came the sound of quarrels over crap-shooting, of banjos and singing -- from the roustabouts amusing themselves between landings.

    Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I 1915

  • Faintly up from below came the sound of quarrels over crap-shooting, of banjos and singing -- from the roustabouts amusing themselves between landings.

    Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 1889

  • I think continuing to buy more toxic debt and crap-shooting the bubble derived more from the "we're too big to fail" mentality than anything else.

    TPMMuckraker 2009

  • In an era when Colored men were chronically stereotyped as racial inferiors in American cinema: chicken-stealing Coons, crap-shooting Sambos, dangerous Bucks (today's urban predators and gangsta rappers), groveling, lazy, bewildered Toms (today's homeless Black men), stammering, good-for-nothing Stepin Fetchits

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Daniel Bruno Sanz 2009

  • In an era when Colored men were chronically stereotyped as racial inferiors in American cinema: chicken-stealing Coons, crap-shooting Sambos, dangerous Bucks (today's urban predators and gangsta rappers), groveling, lazy, bewildered Toms (today's homeless Black men), stammering, good-for-nothing Stepin Fetchits

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

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