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OK, I'm sorry for not putting out a blog in 5 days. I've been doing some part-time work, and taking care of a baby. And it's not like you're paying for this, anyway. So, deal with it.

Today I was stunned by another public flogging of a man because of his race. A CEO of a medical center (which one isn't really important - you can find it in the news, if you really care,) was drubbed by the NAACP, and in particular by Julian Bond, who is a complete nit-wit. Bond has done less for the NAACP than almost anyone in my lifetime, unless making them into a publicity-seeking racism-mongering organization is the direction that they seek to achieve. In which case, Bond is gold in that role.

Anyway, he called for the head of this medical center for the audacity to agree with the NAACP. He said that having a team in our Nation's capitol called the "Redskins" should be as offensive to Indians as the word "Niggers" is to blacks. Now, I don't think that the term "Redskins" was intended to be insulting to the indigent people of this Continent. I think it recognizes the root civilization that was here before the Europeans came here and killed most of them, before declaring this area theirs in the name of someone who had never been here. The term redskin was descriptive in its design to help identify them from the Johnny-come-lately Europeans. Redskin to me is like saying someone is "black" - the term is meant to identify someone based upon visually identifying features. It's not meant to be offensive. Hell, even calling someone "fat" isn't meant as an insult if used properly. I can call myself fat. It's different than using it in the context of saying something like "she's a fat 'ho' " in a daytime talk-show. The term "nigger" was not meant to designate people from a certain part of the world, or to separate them from other people who looked the same - it was designed to be an offensive term to remind blacks that they weren't considered persons equal to them (in a legal sense of the word) prior to the Civil Rights Act. Nowadays, most people accept all people as "equal" in the eyes of the law with regard to skin color. The main difference these days is wealth - if you're rich, you can get a lawyer who can get you off. Ask O.J.

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