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I recently found out that picnic used to mean "pick a n**** to lynch" which was held every Friday. So now I'm scared to say it when talking to the elderly at the nursing home I work at.
Just where did you "find out" this crap? And how often do picnics come up as a topic of conversation anyway?
You may just end up not saying anything at all. To be politically correct, all you do is becoming a fool. Be normal and enjoy life.
<a href="http://www.snopes.com/language/offense/picnic.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.snopes.com/language/offense/picnic.asp</a>
http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/question/jan04.htm
.... so?
Basically, you're letting slang ruin words. Picnic was used long before slavery from what I read, and America did what it does best to words, which were to alter it's meaning. Like gay used to mean happy, but now it's homosexual. Stop worrying so much about it.