But is it racist ?
Myself I did n't know until fairly recently.
In Greek we used to say "Louis Armstrong, the great negro virtuoso of the saxophone", also the "negro spirituals".
It was n't such a common term of reference for black people though.
A greek fourth ref would say "the black one gets the card" and if he was a racist he would use another word, not the "n".
What is the situation for Romanian language though ?