Depends on your educational background and life's experience as to whether or not you think it's a racist term. Depends on your opinion of Mitt Romney as to whether you think he meant it as a racial epithet. In this particular context, he very likely didn't mean it as racist at all. His interpretation of Uncle Remus is also very likely not the same as a black person's is. We all see it our way, sometimes we miss it altogether too. Hell, I remember when I
used to think George Micheal was singing those songs about chicks...

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