Whatever racist origins the phrases may once have carried (“Who Dat” being the phrase in question) are pretty much purged through the common bond that it now represents, a bond that transcends race. As an older African-American man said in a TV interview I saw recently, “There aren’t any black folks and white folks in New Orleans right now, everybody’s black and gold!”

Nice find on that letter Quimbob! Thanks for throwing it out there. I do think that being aware of the origins of our terms and phrases is important, and not a cleaned up version either. How many kids know that Ring Around The Rosy is about the black plague after all?