Ollaimh ~~ Objections to the old phrase "the pot calling the kettle black", which has no racial overtone but simply refers to a time when both would be hung over an open fire and so become sooty, is somewhat on a par with objections to the word "niggardly" = miserly, which has no relationship of meaning or derivation whatever to another word with which it is not even quite homophonous. You may regard yourself as an 'educated and cultured' person; but not on this semantic evidence, I fear.

~M~