>If you use the word boy while referencing both a black man and the ghetto it is pretty obvious what the intention is by the context.<
Bullscat
The statement is a colloquialism, paraphrased for many different circumstances (You can take the boy/girl out of the <insert term>, but you can't take the <insert term> out of the boy/girl), none of which have anything to do with race.
Yes, the term "boy", aimed at black males, can have certain racial connotations ("Boy, you are about a stupid thing"). To take "boy", and claim it as an always racial term, is disingenuous