sp1814
/// However, if you walked into a hotel with a load of bags, and you pointed to a middle-aged black porter and said, "Hey the boy, can you take my luggage up to room 107", suddenly the word 'boy' takes on a whole new meaning. ///
Only to a black person it would seem, if one said the same to a white middle aged porter, I doubt if he would have bat an eyelid, in fact he would have most likely have found it rather funny being called a 'Boy'.
Has a matter of fact, are they not called 'Bell Boys' in the States?