It's all too much. This colloquialism for Negro has become "the n word" and discussed with ludicrously more insight and faux outrage than it could possibly deserve. With the coloured population rising exponentially and with thousands of blacks risking life and limb to illegally enter the UK, is it not prudent to suggest that the subjects of the description are not really bothered, and the outrage comes from so called SJW's and the overtly politically correct word police? And for someone to suggest Prince Charles and his family affectionately and openly calling an old Indian friend "Sooty" is an outrage, well, it is yet another demonstration of how those who call the government dictators have very dual standards. The same goes for the colloquial for Pakistanis. I don't get all in a huff if I am called a Pom or if I hear someone speak of Japs, Ozzies or whatever. People need to desensitise themselves and accept the English language cannot and should not be castrated to the politically correct desires of a minority. It was only in the sixties my Rupert annual had the phrase "Rupert saw a little group of coons running towards the beach"., and in the seventies family viewing time comedy programmes were awash with similar harmless phrases for foreigners that have suddenly now been made as taboo as black magic, witchcraft and sorcery were in times of yore. People need to get a realistic grip on their priorities.
