Feds seeing increase in "coded" slurs in the workplace

Coded prejudice is cloaked dagger:
"Tomeika Broussard thought it was so absurd when she overheard her supervisor refer to her as a 'reggin' that she just laughed. Then she realized it was the n-word spelled backward.

The only African-American in the small medical clinic in Los Gatos, Calif., Broussard said she was subjected to racial slurs almost daily. They were not the overt ones that most people would immediately recognize, but rather subtle, surreptitious code words that sometimes take a while to figure out."