I worked for a small software company owned by a great guy who was Chinese. He flew in to meet with the senior management team of one of our largest clients when we were having tough time with our product....we were concerned we were going to get thrown out and the CIO was our greatest advocate.
So we are sitting in the board room with the CEO, CFO, COO, CRO, etc....about ten people from our client's company. After ten minutes late, the CIO, our advocate, barges in and says, with a big smile on his face "OK, so what is so GDed important that you have to fly the chink in?"
There was an audible gasp. that was followed by nervous laughter and then a very teamwork-like meeting to address the issues and get stuff done. After everyone leaves and it is just us and the CIO, he says "you guys wanna get lunch? do you like Chinese food?"
Later, my CEO says "you know, the CIO really took care of us. he knew were were going to get beat up and after he called me a chink, what were they going to do? They had no choice but to have a creative meeting and give us time to fix our problems".
I'll never forget that as long as I live.