If you look, this is a very old thread - congratulations to Ricky on finally persuading Meatpie not to use the n-word, a while ago now.
And incidentally Meatpie is not a racist, he dislikes all forms of hate and has made that clear. Remember that the 'baggage' of words varies from country to country, and with time - to him it does not have the extreme connotation it has to US-ers - in fact even in the UK it is not quite so loaded.