WHY  is that a racial slur  i am  bewildered

https://www.aol.com/sports/trainer-eric-guillot-banned-giving-155226881.html

the horse name is grape soda and the trainer is now banned

I tried to find something on the internet and all I could find was that grape soda is "stereotypically" associated with blacks.  New one on me.  

That might explain why Radar O'Reilly always ordered Grape Nehi instead of Grape Soda, but then there was a character on MASH named Spearchucker.  This wonderful show would never get away with that today.

eric guillot was banned  for racist grape soda ran and won  aqueduct 

I love grape soda.  Seriously.  I also love watermelon and fried chicken.  Sh!t like this is just nuts.  

I guess if you "love" grape soda everything is hunky dory, but if you "hate" grape soda, you're one of those soda pop racists.  

I was counceled for having oreo cookies at work.....im serious,i was written up ,and counceled for 3 hours.

Because  oreos are racist?

I love my Cream Soda and Root Beer, So I wonder, am I a racist?

Yes,apparently they are,the ONLY thing that saved my job was the company sold ores in their vending machines!

Odd... when the chocolate to nilla ratio is 2:1  thats the dumbest thing I have heard in awhile and so is the grape soda..

Right,in the end,the guy that made such a stink over it died  of a drug overdose

Oh my!  My sons school is probably 85% black.  In the halftime show at football games, they have two "big" black kids and one "big" white kid get out and dance in front of the band.  They call it the "Double stuffed oreo show"  it is freaking hilarious, I am probably one of ten white people in the stands and everyone loves it.  People seriously need to get over themselves and most of them are white!  Most of the black people I know think all this woke BS is stupid.

Our son's diversity training included instructions to not use the phrase "tipping point" as it has racist undertones. 

Guess I'm racist too then.... Love those soda's!! Also, love Big Red.... is that an issue now too??

are you blanking kidding  seriusly oreo cookies

So as I read it the trainer actually admitted he named the horse (with tounge n cheek) in HONOR of a black analyst on htv.  So as i read it he was being a racist ass even tho the horse got the name grape soda and to me who rarely checks to see what words are deemed to "mean something else" I would think that was a really great name....for a horse. 

I am soooo over this ****....

unhinged-pot calling kettle black

grape soda-refreshing kids drink

Amen.... not about gender just reverence

Stop making words into something else.  some of us cant keep up and just want our words back to the orginal meaning.  I dont subscribe to your urban dictionaries. 

Milk is racist too, but my conscience is clear because I love chocolate milk.

Seriously, this "woke" rage is incredibly insane.  Who makes this sh!t up?

I am tempted to start a thread about "fad words" and "fad expressions".  All my life I've been amused by that kind of thing.  Where does it start?

Cassius Clay had a whole list of racial baloney and for the life of me I can only remember two of them.

White cowboy hat..........good guy             Black cowboy hat..........bad guy

Angel food cake..............white                   Devils food cake..........black

It was stupid to ban him but there is more to the story, as if anyone here cares. The trainer said he was changing the name in honor of a black announcer. So he did have racil overtones. It seems on the surface that it may have been a joke between the two? But no one has said that. It's an over reaction just like everything today. But it wasn't as simple as a guy changing the name out of nowhere either. 

You just repeated what luluwhit said..