Comment by dTal

I was very confused by this, so I looked it up:

"It has been suggested that the word originally referred to the debris remaining in the holds of slave ships after the slaves had been disembarked, but there is no evidence of such use before the 20th century when slavery was prevalent." -- Wiktionary

I do not think we should be deprecating colorful words because someone invented a fake etymology for them. Nor, for that matter, because someone somewhere might unreasonably take offense.