"Are you all that young? It is a quote from old movies where StepinFetchit (a very stereotypical black character) would be in a dark room in a spooky house and hear a strange noise or see some vague ghostly movement and his eyes would bug out and he's say, "Feets, don't fail me now!" And then he'd run like crazy."
I'm sure you are correct and I'm old enough to remember Stepin Fetchit, but I still don't see what is racist about the remark. I'm sure the actor, though now dead, would be quite upset if he knew that people were obliterating his lifes work due to some politically correct pinheads.
