Certain members of the black community have deemed it so. Then again, certain others have stated that a "black hole" is also racist, and others still have deemed it racist that more hurricanes do not have "black" names.
It seems like only yesterday (ok, perhaps it was the day before) I was perusing a thread at the dump where a pair of poorly armed dummies were engaged in a wordy battle of wit. At some point the one accused the other of being the type person to use the word "niggardly" in polite conversation. This same dummy, earlier in the thread, had itself used the pejorative phrase 'them people'. (The irony was delicious although largely unnoticed or at least uncommented upon by anyone on the thread)
It is both amazing and entertaining to read what those cunning liberal linguists are capable. If only they knew how their immortal words are viewed when read by others.
Skinner does humanity great service providing them a forum where they can show all the world what they are truly made of; pseudo intellectuals, full of [themselves], on full display.