Well Dave, I grew up with Archie Bunker not in syndication. Context is everything. If used in an overt way to challenge and demonstrate the absurdity of some pigheaded racist ideas...
There are certainly some words I would never use as my own, yet in some communities, within the right settings among friends, it is accepted.
I also have a self-deprecating sense of humor, so make light-hearted jests of my heritage, the eastern European mutt, and blondeness all the time, even if my spouse begs to differ because it is not of the bottle variety.
At the least, you started a dialogue. Maybe that could be the best you could achieve by using the "lighthearted' to challenge the deeply held.
Dialogue is good. Does the end justify the means. Back to where you started.