So, what evidence has been unearthed that anyone has been offended? That seems to me to be the main point of this convoluted discussion.

That such practises run contrary to the common good of humanity is surely in the realms of the Self Evident, whatever fakeloric justifications might exist regarding the supposed non-racist reasons for niggering - a perpetuation of an anachronistic malpractice that cites tradition to establish precedence. Whatever reasons for such niggering in the 19th Century (or for that matter the very existence of the term) the fact is we live in the 21st Century - a very different world indeed, certainly a very different England, where a term like niggering is deeply offensive on every level imaginable.

Personally, I would like to see legislation on this issue as not only does it contravene good sense, but provides a precedence for other such malpractice - folkloric, fakeloric, or indeed otherwise.