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THE Busy Guy's Guide to Sexually Harassing Women. By Isiah Thomas. Rule No. 1: It is unacceptable for a white man to call a black woman "bitch." Rule No. 2: It is acceptable for a man to call a black woman "bitch" - if the man is also black. Yesterday, lawyers for Anucha Browne Sanders flipped a switch, and a giant version of Knick coach and president Isiah Thomas' head filled the courtroom. Thomas appeared on screen, giving a videotaped deposition last December in the sexual-harassment lawsuit filed by Sanders. As it played, Thomas - face-to-face with himself for the...

DETROIT (AP) - There was no mourning at this funeral. Hundreds of onlookers cheered Monday afternoon as the NAACP put to rest a long-standing expression of racism by holding a public burial for the N-word during its annual convention. Delegates from across the country marched from downtown Detroit's Cobo Center to Hart Plaza. Two Percheron horses pulled a pine box adorned with a bouquet of fake black roses and a black ribbon printed with a derivation of the word. The coffin is to be placed at historically black Detroit Memorial Park Cemetery and will have a headstone. "Today we're not...

I found your repeated reference to Paul McCartney as "Macca" unsettling and distracting to the solid information in your story. Recent usage of that term in political circles (albeit, spelled a bit differently) evoked highly negative racial connotations as well as career-ending backlash for the ill-advised politician who used the term in reference to a political campaign opponent. I'm wondering if you thought the McCartney abbreviation was generationally cute, or perhaps otherwise. You're a grown up journalist. Write like one. Martin J. Jacobs, President/CEO, Lanmar Inc.

A WOMAN'S email to the help desk of Telecom New Zealand was rejected by a computer system because her name was Gay and "inappropriate for business-like communication". Gay Hamilton, from the northern South Island town of Nelson, said while she was actually gay, she was concerned that the country's biggest public company was spending its time and resources on trifling issues, the Herald on Sunday reported. "If they do have to put content filters on, then maybe they should ensure that it only gets genuinely abusive words," she said.

It isn't the Don Imus "hos" insult that has a lot of black people calling for his head. It is his use of "nappy-headed." After all, no one's saying that Bernard McGuirk, Imus' executive director, should be fired, even though it was McGuirk who started the on-air insult by referring to the Rutgers team as "hard-core hos." Frankly, not even the most popular rap artist could get away with calling black women "nappy-headed hos." Those are fighting words. Despite the fact that sisters of the '60s thought they had stomped out the nappy phobia, another generation ran back to the...

In order to dehumanize a person, you must first come up with some inhumane name in order to degrade him/her. If you understand the word "unequal," you will see why the word "illegal" is used to speak about the Mexican immigrant. The word "illegal" is a degrading word whose entire intention is to dehumanize. You dehumanize a person in order to do him/her some evil. To do some person evil is behind the word "illegal." "Undocumented" is a more Christian, humanistic word than is "illegal." The basic belief of the Declaration of Independence is that all men and women are...

Author’s note: This column may be offensive to (deleted), (deleted), (deleted), and other protected minority groups deemed insufficiently stable to function in society without the protection, love, and support of white liberals. My recent column about a man’s successful bout with racism raised the ire of many readers. People were upset because it contained the word (deleted), which is offensive to many “African-Americans”, which, by the way, is a term offensive to me, a decidedly non-hyphenated American of Caucasian extraction. Since so many people were a) offended by the word (deleted), which has racial connotations, and b) un-offended by the...

A radio advert for supermarket chain Somerfield has been banned after its use of the word faggots was deemed to be "highly derogatory". The avert(sic)featured a husband complaining that his wife served him the same meals every week. When she told him it was Friday so he was getting his usual faggots, he replied: "I've nothing against faggots, I just don't fancy them." Three listeners complained to media watchdog Ofcom, saying faggots alluded to homosexuals. Somerfield insisted: "The ad refers only to food products. Faggots were chosen to demonstrate the idea because they are commonly perceived as an outdated and...

Stand well back, please, while I unleash a sentence I've been working on. Here it is: That kooky nutcase tossed a fruitcake at the madman and was sent to a mental hospital suffering from a nervous breakdown. There. According to the Nova Scotia government, I managed to break the laws of political correctness a total of six - six! - times in one sentence. It wasn't easy. I had to work at it for oh, maybe 30 or 35 seconds to cram all those bad words in and it doesn't make a lot of sense. But see if you can...