 It was, and is, considered a racial slur, and the songs were as derogatory as their name suggests. Kuhn's songs were derived from sort of these stereotype racialized, minstrel-esque performances, usually using stereotypical black dialect, stereotypical racist representations of black people. Portraying them as violent, ignorant, over-sexualized, prone to drunkenness, and gambling. Not unlike the original blackface minstrel performances way back in the 1830s.