10 letters · 22 points in Scrabble
noun bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
originInversion of woodpecker. Application to white people is due to the perception that the woodpecker is a symbol of whites, whereas the crow or blackbird is a symbol of blacks.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0