I used to despair of my late mother's insistence when watching tv cookery programmes, " How could you eat anything made by those big black hands?" Poor Ainsley Harriott. Yet she was proper old Cardiff, born & brought up in Newtown, lived in the Docks, Splott etc so was no stranger to various colours & creeds. Definitely a generational thing. What about the old Cardiff boxer, Darkie Hughes? It was generally accepted that it was fine to refer to him as that, I think his family did as well.