Thank you, Crowhugger and Art! CW, I will send you some stuff I wrote by message on this. My son-in-law is from Antigua and my twin grandsons are what he jokingly calls, "Zebra children", half black, half white.

In the previous thread we had, which I started, called PC And Proud Of it, we finally agreed that ethically conscious was a better term and that PC had been co-opted, as Art pointed out, by the far right.

I am not going to go into the tings I did in that thread nor in the Song Appropriateness thread. If anyone is interested, you can do a forum search and see what was said. Just don't want to be repetitive and have to trot it all out, again.

There is nothing wrong, IMO, with being considerate enough to watch your language. And, you all have been talking about this issue as though it has disappeared. It has not. Security guards in CT, at WalMart and elsewhere put their hands on their guns when they see my BIG, black son-in-law walk by. Whenever a black man is stopped by cops there, he is asked WHOSE car he is driving, NOT for HIS registration, etc. Here I sit, in Wyoming, where my other daughter just told me again, tonight, that her friends, whom she does not consider racist, think nothing of using the N word and a bunch of other equally reprehensible OLD terms which, in my opinion should be let go and disappear from our language.

Crowhugger, as my daughter says when asked if her husband is black, when she is out with the babies alone, "he is Antiguan and we are all of human race." That is how I think of all of you, as part of the HUMAN race and I am proud to know you and consider you my friends.

I am all for humankind.

kat