I had a white schoolteacher who grew up picking cotton in Louisiana, but she was never known as a pc. My mom dressed up as one for some school thing when she was in high school, back in the early 30's; she had on blackface even. The reason we even know this is there is a picture of her in the yearbook dressed up that way. I am sure she was not particularly proud of it as the years went by. To us, it was a derogatory term and the image was a caricature of a small, thin, crinkly-haired, poor black child. Nothing acceptable about it now or for a long time where I come from. Never will be, I hope.