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** In "The Hildebrand Rarity", Bond muses that "the only trouble with beautiful Negresses is that they don't know anything about birth control." Admittedly, he was having a conversation about Nigeria at the time, where contraception is indeed less prevalent, but the line's still jarring.
*** In ''[[Live and Let Die (novel)|Live and Let Die]]'' Bond is surprised to see a "Negress" driving a car in New York.
**** In the early 1950s, in a Rolls-Royce, in downtown Manhattan, as a professional chauffeur. Which ''is'' legitimately surprising.
** [[Orson Scott Card]], in his novel ''[[Enchantment]]'', quotes an unspecified Fleming story as having the line, "All women love semi-rape." Even if it ''is'' true for some women (which it might be, [[Rule 34]] being what it is), it still comes across as rather creepy.
* Helen Bannerman's children's story ''Little Black Sambo'' has long left a bad taste in people's mouths due to the horrible "darky" caricatures that illustrated most of the early publications. However, apart from this and the name of the title character (which became a racial slur after the fact), the story is rather innocuous and has been retold (''sans'' [[Unfortunate Implications]]) several times in recent years.
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