And that, to me, is the practicality of it, stated in my last post. I should like to thank Gibb for his thoughtful post which must have taken a good while to put together. Almost my favourite sentence from it, and one which addresses the crux of the thread matter, is the second-last one, where he says "The question of racist-word songs in an English (predominantly White) folk club context, I think, is not very challenging." I went to our folk club just about every Friday for the six or seven years from my discovery of it to its demise, and I can't remember a single moment of overt racial discomfort (we were all white, of course). And, as I've said in other below-the-line contexts, in many years of teaching in multi-ethnic East London I kept my antennae tuned for racist comments in my classrooms, which I would never let pass, so I wouldn't have missed much in the calmer air of the folk club...