Everyday phrases/idioms with racial overrtones?

Where the white women at?

 

Tar baby.

To welsh on a bet.

Jew him down.

 

Ofay.

 

My wife's company pays them a flat rate (rather than an hourly rate) for working overtime, commonly known as "Chinese overtime."

 

Chink in the armor.

 

The high school football stadium in Anniston, Alabama, is named after former coach Chink Lott, who got that nickname as a young man because he had slanted eyes.

 

There's a difference between a term that has racial meaning in it's origin - welsh on a bet or paddywagon, and those that have no racial element in their origins and are no misunderstood - niggardly and peanut gallery.

 

Thugs
Jive

 

Colored.

 

Redneck.

 

Redskins