Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161023154654/@comment-14138255-20161024154546

White Southerners (pre and post emancipation) used to call their black servants and male help "boy" as a diminutive, a sort of passive way of establishing superiority. It's offensive to everyone (would you want to be called that by someone who clearly looks down on you?) but it's especially ofensive to minorities.