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William.
There's no etymological information in your citation, nor indeed any reference at all to the term as used offensively, so while I am happy to concede that you are an authority on your second and third assertions, I await a more robust reference for the first.
Or, given that the term is widely understood and used as being offensive, we should just let it go.