Talk politics.

Back in college, I unintentionally started an argument by defending old Jews that referred to black people as "Schvatzahs". The word is Yiddish for black. Some of those Jews didn't like blacks, but the word itself wasn't derogitory. Somehow, we need to come to peace with words like that. The whole "you can't call me that anymore because I've decided its racist" mentality is breeding a new phase of racism against people stereotyped as always playing the race card.