[pissant]

And when the sports talk stations say “your boy went 0 for 5 last night” referring to A-Rod or some other ballplayer, or when people use the term “good old boys” or “old boy’s network”, or when they say such and such was a “whipping boy” or they had a “boys night out”, or when hip hoppers say “your boy” this and “your boy” that constantly we should demand apologies?

Get real.

[Alter Kaker]

Context is everything. In many cases, "boy" isn't an epithet. But in some cases, it clearly is. There was actually a recent Supreme Court decision (from the Roberts Court) that held in part that "boy" ia a racial epithet in certain circumstances.

Whether this is one of them or not, it will clearly be interpreted as such.