My aunt continued to call them that up until a few years ago. Although she could still be calling them that, we haven't been around brazil nuts together in some time. She maintained that it wasn't racist and just how she was raised to call them. She said it was just a name and didn't mean anything. I asked her if she would call them that in front of a black person and she said that she would. But I just don't believe her. Why would someone choose to call them that if there was another name? Doesn't make sense to me.