Racism allegation stirs academic-freedom debate

St Paul Pioneer (de)Press ^ | 10/28/01 | JUDITH YATES BORGER

[Valin]

There are some people who seem to belive the they have a constitutional right NOT to be offended. Where they get this silly idea I have no idea. They must have confused James Madison with Miss Manners.

[Migraine]

Now I'm really confused, what if someone from a South American country and someone from an African country have a child. Is this child also African-American? Or since it is in the southern hemishpere, it must be American-African.

You raise an interesting point. Since the South American probably is a Spanish speaker (or Portuguese), that person is most likely to want to have the noun (American) before the adjective (African). So American-African it would be. Wow! What a way to further confuse an already ridiculous issue! We could start a trend of calling blacks American Africans, in honor of the Hispanics' language.