I’m from the US, and can say that objections to the terms ‘whitelist’ and ‘blacklist’ are not common. On the other hand, we do see things like the recent flap over the use of master/slave terminology for disk drives http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp and people who freak out when someone correctly uses the word ‘niggardly’ http://www.adversity.net/special/niggardly.htm

As for the words ‘whitelist’ and ‘blacklist’, the historical origins go back at least to the 16th century and are not anything racial. Now that the politically correct term in the US for someone who used to be called ‘black’ is ‘African/American’ and since there are no people whose skin is an actual white or black color, I think there is an argument to be made that there is nobody left to be offended by ‘whitelist’ and ‘blacklist’.