Good old public education and the ignorance it perpetuates.
The term has nothing to do with the skin color of its residents.
Thanks to the illiteracy of the public (along with lack of spines among those that are educated) this is what we now have.
Pathetic. Disgusting.
Absolutely right - it's like no one ever read Lord Jim.
Yes. This rises to the intellectual level of the objection to the word "niggardly"