And anyone who finds themselves using racist insults has to recognise that this means that at some level within them they are racist - and this can be very unsettling to recognise.

I trust that you would include in this those who would address such insults to themselves and others of their racial grouping?

This issue has moved on and become far too complex for such simplistic judgements.

For it is not the use words of the words themselves that are the issue but the context, intent and who it is that is using them.

Thus the same word - 'black' can quite innocently describe a colour, intentionally denigrate an entire racial grouping and be used proudly, for the very opposite reasons.