different between hispanic vs darkey

Romanian

Borrowed from French hispanique, Latin hispanicus.

hispanic m or n (feminine singular hispanic?, masculine plural hispanici, feminine and neuter plural hispanice)

dark +? -ey

darkey (plural darkeys)

(dated slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A person with dark skin.
- 1865 August 7, Jordan Anderson, "To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson", republished in the New York Daily Tribune:
  Sometimes we overhear others saying, "Them colored people were slaves" down in Tennessee. The children feel hurt when they hear such remarks; but I tell them it was no disgrace in Tennessee to belong to Colonel Anderson. Many darkeys would have been proud, as I used to be, to call you master.
(slang, obsolete) A dark lantern.

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