12/03/04 Racist Name-calling Undermines Solidarity

Submitted byWNPJ member Clarence Kailin

Racist Name-calling Undermines Solidarity

Wisconsin State Journal
December 3, 2006

Forum columneist Earl Ofari Hutchinson asks readers what they think about Michael Richards' racist remarks.

The N-word is certainly the most ffensive word in the English language. Racist name-calling has been used to justify everything form slavery to segregation. It has undermined black and white working-class solidarity.

All of us pay a heavy price for our own racism. It's past time we saw the light.

--Clarence Kaillin, Veterans for Peace, Madison