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If you don't have real examples then I will take it that you are just creating a problem where none exists.

Who is "they"? It looks like the origin is coming from a quote by Larry Callies who runs the Black Cowboy Museum. Is everything quoted correct? I don't know but it read as a fun story that may be some mix of truth / story and probably heavily location specific. I am not sure sure that would classify as "race-baiting".

There are articles of slavery and race in TM but I would not classify it as more than 25% maybe?

I just gave an example of them making up an origin of the term "cowboy" being related to slavery with no supporting evidence.

Who is them? It’s a quote from a man who runs a museum? Did he make it up? Is it from passing down of verbal knowledge? Seems like if I was writing an article, going to the museum of black cowboys could have some interesting information. Just because his information is different from your “linguistic” history does not mean it’s race baiting trash.

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