When I was a kid we used the dreadful banned only blacks can say it word, no one was offended then, people shrugged it off just like us Italians shrugged off the word "wop" or "guinea", no one blinked an eye at "chink" or "harp" or "spic", good God, apparently a lot of people were born without spines.
Whoa! Just one dam#ed minute... Shrugged off? ... Not this Dago.. .. :)