There it is McGrath.

Thanks for the new link.

I think he underestimated the meaning and the continuing hurt associated with "those words" ... "you see there's still those words".

And he misjudged his own ability to get through to everyone.

I don't think he's racist, but I think he's made a mistake, and I think he knows it, that he will always regret.

He may have thought he was doing something clever on the spur of the moment, but when it is all stripped away, what we see is a white man on a stage with an audience saying "shut up Nigger" to a black man for interrupting him.

The emperors new clothes weren't invisible, they simply weren't there. The whole postmodern irony shock value thing meant nothing in the face of someone being victimized on the basis of their race.

Again, a subtler caricature might have evidenced real wit.

Was it funny? Noone was laughing!