Well, you use the term “merkan” repeatedly and deliberately, so I think there may be some other issues. You seem to throw terms around rather loosely. Nor did you capitalize “Mexican”.
:rolleyes:
(How was that? :))
What about Slick?
All this reminds me of a line from Stalag 17:
I’m sure it’s buried in the Leo Bloom records here, but I’ll mention again: in my father’s Borat-like village in The Old Country, he was the only one close to and fed a stray dog named Hitler. (I’ll have to ask him who gave him the name.) This was before March 19, 1944, when the Germans invaded (their Hungarian allies were tottering), and they had to kill it.
Hand to God true story. Couldn’t obviously just rename him, he said in the many times I’ve questioned him about this story, because everyone who knew of the dog, Jew and Gentile, knew that he used to be friendly with this one Jew, and it was safer, his family thought, to destroy the evidence. I think they drowned it, Jews surely not allowed to have weapons.
For decades I never believed the story fully. But in the last few years I twice saw him (my Dad), when lost in thought and silently, lovingly petting my Golden, let out a wistful sigh and nearly unperceptibly mutter “Hitler.”
Carl Sandburg wrote a charming collection of children’s stories called Rootabaga Stories (1922). One of the stories was about a beautiful little girl named Wing Tip the Spic. Now, I never knew Sandburg, myself; however, I feel sure he never meant it as an insult.
I had one of those too. Finally just started calling him Adolf. Cat didn’t mind.
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On top of that, their posts vary wildly in terms of readability, spelling, and grammar. As to pragmatics, I’ll leave that issue for you to decide.
The spelling I have always seen is ‘spic’.
Or “Speck.”
The cat IS a subservient lesser species that is nothing but property. Nobody considers them equal to humans. It’s basically your slave. It has no rights. It’s not a citizen. To paraphrase Dred Scott:
Cats are beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the human race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they have no rights which man was bound to respect.
Possibly your age.
Yes, but “Spook” is right out!
I also wonder if our OP knows what a merkan is (although it’s actually spelled merkin ).
Link includes pic! 
I’ll agree with a couple other posters. There’s nothing to fix. It’s your cat, your house, and there’s nothing racist about it. Who gives a fuck if someone thinks it is?
EDIT: Forgot my question mark.