"I was walking into town to get a bus to work," Andy Inglis says, "strolling along minding my own business when a white van came around the corner with a few blokes in the front seat. One lent out of the window and shouted, 'Ginger!' and threw a nearly full McDonald's strawberry milkshake at me which hit my upper body and exploded over my work shirt, tie and trousers! They drove off laughing."

"The G word is an anagram of the N word."

In 15th-century Germany, redheads were seen as witches - 45,000 were tortured and murdered. Meanwhile, Egyptians burned gingers alive, and the Greeks reckoned they turned into vampires when they died.

"Gingers may be extinct by 2060 because only 2% of the world's population are gingers, and that number is shrinking"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/24/gingerism-ginger-prejudice