@zenvelo When we were kids where we lived, there wasn’t anything racist about it. It was just something we said. Sure it’s racist, but we didn’t even know the word and wouldn’t/couldn’t have known what it meant unless somebody told us and maybe we wouldn’t have cared. I never talked to a black person until I was 11 years old. I didn’t even really know what a negro was. Sure, we saw them on the news in black and white. But when I met one from Nigeria, Africa, I didn’t understand that they were the same thing. It was only enough to know that two against one, of any color or colors, isn’t fair.
But “two can play that game” means if one person can play dirty, so can the other person. It isn’t about revenge, it’s about playing the game by equal rules, or lack thereof, equally. “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.”