Sure they do... I remember The Little Rascals and Stymie, the little black kid with the derby hat...He was somewhere where the other kid, Furina, couldn't find him and called out, "Stymie boy? Stymie?...Where is you?...and Stymie replied, "Here I is!"...
Yes but that was a far more enlightened time.
Things have slid much farther down hill since that renaissance period.