Sambos

Imagine a professional team called the Sambos; featuring an African American man adorning a top hat and tails, flashing his pearly whites, all hell would break loose until there was a name change.

Byron Williams: Native American Insensitivity: An American Tradition 2009

I'd hear the jokes made by people at a tavern called "Sambos" in Leipsic, or at the old Heartbreak Hotel in Bowers Beach, right along the bay, where the town hall was once housed in a mobile home.

Tom Davis: Small Wonder 2010

I'd hear the jokes made by people at a tavern called "Sambos" in Leipsic, or at the old Heartbreak Hotel in Bowers Beach, right along the bay, where the town hall was once housed in a mobile home.

Tom Davis: Small Wonder 2010

I'd hear the jokes made by people at a tavern called "Sambos" in Leipsic, or at the old Heartbreak Hotel in Bowers Beach, right along the bay, where the town hall was once housed in a mobile home.

Tom Davis: Small Wonder 2010

With an iconography of racist images of black masculinity ranging from back in the day as Sambos, Uncle Toms, coons, and bucks to gangsta hip-hoppers, Malcolm represented the negation of them.

Irene Monroe: Malcolm X Was "Gay-for-Pay," New Book Says Irene Monroe 2011

Slaves were actually happy “Sambos” who were more like little children who had to be nurtured by the kind masters who never broke up families …

Think Progress » Texas Social Studies Curriculum: Out With Civil Rights Leaders, In With Phyllis Schlafly And Joseph McCarthy 2010

You are never going to do anything besides wait tables at Sambos.

Command Voice Lou Freshwater 2011

With an iconography of racist images of black masculinity ranging from back in the day as Sambos, Uncle Toms, coons, and bucks to gangsta hip-hoppers, Malcolm represented the negation of them.

Irene Monroe: Malcolm X Was "Gay-for-Pay," New Book Says Irene Monroe 2011

Without the right to be just human beings in the minds of whites, we go from being Magical Negroes to Sambos with little stop in-between at simple humanity.

Archive 2010-03-01 Steven Barnes 2010

Without the right to be just human beings in the minds of whites, we go from being Magical Negroes to Sambos with little stop in-between at simple humanity.

"Hot Tub Time Machine" (2010) and Obama Steven Barnes 2010