>In the Vietnam War, "I am going get me a Charlie" is a racist remark.
I disagree, Henry. 'Charlie' was a shortened form of 'Victor Charlie', they being the military-phonetic codes for the letters V and C, which of course stood for Viet Cong. So 'I'm going to get me a Charlie' meant 'I am going to hunt down and kill [someone I can believe to be or at least plausibly claim to be] a member of the Viet Cong'.
Murderous, but not racist.