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Jeeezus Sir; don't you think it is possible for different people to have different opinions of the same object, the same word, or the same idea? I know you only play a smart person on the silver screen, if that is the case. How about you trying to understand the nword from and black to a black might have a totally different meaning from when you use it. Maybe when black people say America, it is with mixed feelings about a place that will accept their blood, and demand their labor, but denys them dignity. You seem to think they are hypocrits. I think anyone giving money to a black thinking it will help anyone but jwords, or the kwords, or the chwords, iwords, or awords is an idiot and a hypocrit. If you want to help some one, enforce their rights, Engage with them, and get to know them, and then ask what sort of help they think might they might need. You might find that we have been talking a different language for many years, and usually using not to communicate, but to miscommunicate. As much as you may want to dance on the heart of society's victims; I wish you would look hard for a real difference between you and the nwords. I think in their shoes you might be more violent and bitter than they. I think you should try it on for size, to see if you fit, and see if you're cool. I thought I was cool once, and a nword told me I wouldn't last ten minutes as a black. And now I believe him. I don't think you would last two. Thanks; Sweeney

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Correction: What sort of help they think they might need. -That is just to show that my fingers are faster than my eyes. But my patience is still shorter than my shoes. So give it some thought, karate kid. The celebration of human triumph is always more entertaining than grinding away at human weakness. And; there is so much human weakness to grind at, that to grind at it is too common. Why not do something heroic, and try to mend this place and this people. We will never know strength or freedom until we are united. We will not even be a nation unless united. And no matter how you fault black people, they fault us as well and often more justly. And trust me on this: I am not likable, and I certainly don't like anyone I don't know, regardless of their color, or country of origen. But, I respect more those who must endure more, and that is true of blacks and many others. I won't stone their paths because it is within my power as a white to injure them, or point out their faults. And such behavior might pay your bills, but I can hardly believe such meaness is emotionally satisfying. Thank agin; Sweeney

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Quote: "There are no 'bad words.' " Exactly the point. Words are mere arrangements of consonant and vowel sounds uttered in a specifc sequence. They have no power other than the power we give them. The very concept of so-called "bad" or "obscene" or "profane" or "indecent" or "dirty" words is a relic of ancient religious superstition. Does anyone still believe, as primitive man once did, that speaking a taboo word will arouse the anger of the volcano god? ¶As for the use of racial epithets, it's context and intent that make all the difference. When young blacks call each other "nigger" or "nigga" as an expression of endearment or ethnic solidarity, obviously they don't find it offensive in that context. Offensiveness is a perception, not a fact. It has always been acceptable to say certain things within one's own group that would be labeled unacceptable if said by someone outside that group. Call it a double standard if you like, but it's human nature and it will never change. Get used to it.

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Thanks, Chuck. First up, you are a saint now that you're saved, as Paul states in Romans 1:7, writing to Christians, "To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints." The "to be" is not a future aspiration but a present and everlasting condition bestowed upon the child of God at the instant of conversion. However, being saintly consistently in day-to-day living is of course 'something else,' as you folk say over there and as you and I both know. I appreciate your theme that liberty does not mean licence, including where language is concerned. Why, for example, should any articulate person with God to thank for fully functioning vocal apparatus abuse that gift with "corrupt commnication" Ephesians 4:29, as you righly note? I agree with your conclusion summed up in Matthew 12:34, that the speech problem, in whatever form*, is really a heart problem, for as the 'olde' Good Book** says, "for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." *I guess anyone who habitually wishes to "complain in the bitterness of my soul" like Job, Job 7:11 about his lot in the US is free to emigrate (like folk the world over are doing, 300,000+ coming to the UK alone each year). Africa, for example, is a huge land mass, much of it empty (including many areas where white farmers have been forcibly ejected from their properties). Emigrants exit the US could find wilderness taming both a satisfying challenge and a salutory experience. White folks did it when they crossed the Atlantic 400 years ago. No reason other can't, if in fact we're all equal. **You seem to have switched from the NASV to the NIV. You're hard to keep up with, brother, I guess like Walker, Texas Ranger.