They can do that? For that reason?
"They said because of our ethnicity, people automatically think of the racial slur as opposed to any other definition of the term," Simon Tam, founder and bassist of The Slants, told me. "In other words, if I was white, this wouldn't be an issue at all" ...
No way! White people get away with everything ...
Sure they can. The PTO knows this term is offensive to them, they are just not smart enough to understand that.
Kind of like the native amaerican tribes that think they are not offended by "Redskins", but Bob Costas and Obama know better.