sambo

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Then it is believed the serpents come from the sea to the land, and coil upon the sambo, which is the table of the gods, for the serpents announce the coming; and the Dragon-King sends messengers to the temples of Izanagi and Izanami, the parents of gods and men. '

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  1. The offspring of a negro and an Indian.

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  • Chief wahoo offends Indian people the same way that little black sambo offended African Americans and the frito bandito offended the Hispanic community and should have offended all of us.
  • More on Sarah Palin's Sambo And Mitch - SARAH Palin's alleged sambo and bitch comment is making good headway on the web ... —  Anorak News
  • And someone who refers to blacks as "sambo" and to Alaska's indigenous people as "arctic arabs," running for vice president on the ticket with a man who is a walking medical disaster waiting to happen. —  Latest entries from edstrong.blog-city.com
  • Putin began sambo (a Soviet martial art developed for the Red Army and the NKVD) before switching to judo. —  Anorak News
  • He has that sambo, but when you get punched, it changes the whole dynamic. —  FanHouse
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