I wondered if my question about songs using once-normal but now-slur[ish] terms had been inappropriate in the swearing thread.

So do you bowdlerize, explain, or just sing? In the black-or-brown-man song, I would say in my intro, these upcoming color terms refer to hair color. Then I would sing it as normal.

But if the once-normal word were Nigger, I would likely bowdlerize. Or choose another song. And it's that last choice that bothers me. Take the Just So story about the leopard getting spots... There is a line in there that should not make whole that story unreadable-aloud (or allowed, haha). It is a great story.