@UncleBuck @schuylaar
I understand that some people in the USA take offense by the term. However that was not my intended use of the term. I used it in a conversation with the racist Uncle Buck a year or two ago when he kept insisting Obama was "black". I mentioned that he had parents of different races. I used the anthropological term "mulatto" and intended no disparagement. In fact when I asked Uncle Racist Buck which side of Obama's ancestry I had offended he was silent. Again, If I have offended anyone, that was not my intention.
It's also odd, because Buck never addresses his adoption of the "one drop rule" which HAS racist intentions.
(If you don't know what the "one drop rule" is look it up, it fits Uncle Bucks narrative)
In many parts of the world, the term, is still used as a descriptive, not as a perjorative.