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Used to be a time when, right or wrong, a man could speak his mind freely. He might take some heat over what he had to say but nobody ever denied him the right to say it.

Nowadays, we have these "witch hunts" against anybody who says anything at all that might be controversial or considered "politically incorrect."

If I recall correctly, this nonsense started back in the 1980s when Howard Cosell made some innocent comment on Monday Night Football about a black football player breaking loose for a touchdown and all hell broke loose. Soon thereafter, you had others run out of the business for not being politically correct on TV (oddsmaker "Jimmy the Greek" comes to mind).

Are we a better society now than we were back then? I'm not so sure. Up until the mid 1980s, I saw race and sex relations improving and it seemed that racism was about to go away for good. Now I feel like I am on eggshells whenever I am around black people or women in the workplace because I don't want to inadvertently offend them and have my career ruined.

We are not as free as we used to be.