I'm saddened to see a subject like this. Calling someone a racist is too easy. It's a kind of name-calling that doesn't address the solution to such a problem.

I believe that people are entitled to intelligent differences of opinion without having to be subject to invective.

Mudcat is not a racist forum. It's an enlightened discussion by many who are quite knowledgeable in the field of folk music and this is the reason I read it.

"Racist" is one of the buzz-words like "Communist" or (fill in the blanks).

Frank