Don't mention the dog!

Plans are in hand apparently to remake the film "The Dam Busters" (why??), but problems have arisen over Guy Gibson's dog. Anyone who's seen the original film, or read the book will know that the dog's name reflected the fact that it was a coal-black Labrador. Unfortunately, it is also a word which now, despite the best efforts of Richard Pryor (God bless 'im) cannot be freely used because it might cause offence. To whom, exactly, I'm not quite sure, but there are those who are prepared to find offence in anything - remember Mary Whitehouse? Agatha Christie wrote a book which has had to be retitled because it contained this word. I'm sure you all know what the word is, so isn't it silly to have to keep tiptoeing round it just because some brain-dead morons use it as a derogatory generic name for people of a certain colour. Why don't we all just grow up?