I just got up from conversation with a couple of older black men, that I said “well I got to go back to work and start cracking the whip.” And it occurred to me then that it was probably a really insensitive stupid thing to say.
Sadly, it hadn’t occurred to me until it’s already said.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_derogatory_terms
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_offensive_terms
these aren’t phrases but they’re words