A spade can call a spade a spade, or a nigger (neither of which term I've ever cared for - my dad called 'em darkies which I didn't think much of either), or call a white guy a honky muthafucka, but you'd better refer to him/her as an African American. I'd like to see the derogatory names disappear but it's not necessarily the white folks keeping them in the forefront. Equality goes both ways, not some are more equal than others.