As a honky meself I can use the term honky as ca the black community use the other word amongst themselves.
There's fishing, then there's wandering about at night clicking a wooden flip flop muttering about it's not a whale, it's the devil himself...
Not just Channel 5, BBC are at with Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None"! I believe racism is to do with intent rather than the word, up until the 70's you could buy n****r brown paint, the word was another word for brown and used freely. I guess Guy Gibsons dog was a chocolate Labrador.