"For instance, the head of the Moderates of that time, Mr Ulf Adelsohn, declared in opposition to the boycott against the South African apartheid regime by 1985, that such boycott from the part of the Swedes would cause the "miserable niggers stay out of work" ["de stackars negrerna annars skulle stå utan jobb"] [1]. When asked by TT News agency whether he regretted to have used such deleterious terms, and that have caused some irritation, Adelsohn replied, why, "a nigger is a nigger and a Swede is a Swede" ["En neger är en neger och en svensk är en svensk"]."