all i can say is wow...todays youth is so challenged...i've never even seen this thread until today. if we allow racism, we allow derogatory terms, promote hatred, invoke prejudice, and summon the past. people take offense to racist remarks because it attacks their core. the part of them they cannot change, the part that they stride for and hold pride in. why would you want to allow that? you think by taking away racism we live in a utopia? not many people are openly racist today yet there's still catastrophe's happening. do you take offense to any of these words?
******
*****
spic
gook
cracker
sand ******
camel jocky

well, you should. let's use a more reliable source other than wikipedia shall we?
Search dictionary.com: NUMBER 1: a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.

do you get it now? we don't need more reasons to be seperated nor does any race need to pretend to be more superior then the next. so keep racism banned. offensive or not.