I personally think ethnic slurs are best left to bigots.
Volumes have been written on whether it is or isn't okay to use the so-called "n-word" if the person using it is black. I doubt that issue is going to be resolved any time soon. It's true that a word is just a word. But, since a large number of black people are offended by its use (given its painful and ugly history), I never use it. Period. I have never actually come across a situation in my life where I have *needed* to use such a word. :convinced:
I don't personally see the appeal of Rev. Jackson, and don't find his use of the "n-word" or his crass comments about Senator Obama appealing.
But that doesn't excuse the fact that Imus's comments were also crass and offensive. Those girls at Rutgers seem to be high-achieving, remarkable young women who didn't deserve his asinine, entirely racially motivated comments about them.
I think they're creepy. 
