Following up on GregB's note above, there is currently a written complaint being made against me for singing two shanties at a National Park that mention "yellow girls" claiming that the phrase is "racist".
Apart from being extremely hurt and angry at this complaint being made behind my back, having lived 40 years in many cultures other than my own without a HINT that I am bigoted in any way I am disappointed that a minister of a church (albeit an un-employed one) should be so uneducated as to make this claim about a phrase which not only is not racist, it's not even derogatory, it's value-free descriptive-black men, white women, yellow girls. If we can't use this last, then we can't use the first two either!Actually both the songs in question go on to talk of the yellow girls in admiring terms.As you can probably tell I'm pretty mad about this and would welcome advice