glueman,

I considered sending you a private message, but I feel the need to respond on this public forum about your use of the "N" word in your 15 Jul 09 - 07:14 AM post.

Reading that was like kick to my gut. It hurt more because it came out of nowhere. Did you really need to use that word to express what you were saying?

Beccause of such casual uses of racial slurs-and for the sake of the historical record, I'm excluding the retention of that odious "N" word" in the text of minstrel songs- I'm now resigned to the fact that Mudcat is likely never to have any but a few Black people and other People of Color who publicly acknowledge their race/ethncity and who regularly posts to its threads.

Sometimes I need to remind myself why I am a member of this community.