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Black Power advocates not only celebrated black peoples' history and beauty, but many also vilified whites, calling them "honkies," "crackers," "ofays," and "devils." Some publicly joked about the way whites smelled, danced, and lacked hygiene or morality.

All the other speakers are OFays. And that ain't even funny.

In his autobiography, Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans, Louis Armstrong described playing with Fate Marable's Band for white audiences in port towns along the Mississippi in the early 1920s: "The ofays were not used to seeing colored boys blowing horns and making fine music to dance by.

On May 30, 1936, a pageone headline blared the news that Woodson "Calls Du Bois a Traitor if He Accepts Post," with a subtitle adding for good measure: "He Told Ofays, We'd Write Own History." Woodson charged that Du Bois had stolen the idea of The Encyclopedia of the Negro from him and that his project was doomed to failure because Du Bois was financed by, and his editorial board included, white people.

One would hope this was just one of those ofays in the kitchen for it seems such a waste that the food doesn't match this splendid Warwickshire setting.

"He had a couple of ofays in Brazil and you just cannot afford to have them at this level of sport.

Fly-half Eric Elwood can be one of the best goaickers in Europe, but ofays have limited him to 22 caps in five years.