Exactly. Forget racism. It's bad manners.
Take care of manners, and you can't (legitimately) be accused of any "isms."
This is MSM tabloid stuff. Hardly the concerns of a Secretary of State of the United States. Was she hoping to get on Nancy Grace? Maybe an invite to Sharptons show or a Jackson march?
He was a major player in the coarsening of our culture, she is an elegant lady that gave her two cents when asked, her statement is what we would have expected in our better times, I agree with her.
A Liberal would say: "I think that this kind of coarse language doesn't belong anywhere in reasonable dialogue between reasonable people, AND THEY MUST BE FIRED!"
O.K. Condi, will you lead the charge to censor Snoop Dogg and all the other rappers who use the word “Ho” so much you think they’re singing Christmas Carols?
Wise words.
In Appalachia in the 1920s, "N----r" was apt to turn up in every other sentence. But my grandmother, her two sisters and her two brothers knew if they got caught saying it, there would be hell to pay. Educated and polite people don't say such things.
My grandmother and her siblings were among the very few children who asked for a bag of "licorice babies" at the local five-and-dime. They were "n----r babies" to everyone else.
Says the women who legitimized Hamas.
The ensuing brouhaha over those comments was way over the top, and the penalty far too severe for the crime. However, you are exactly right. As a society we have become far too casual in our conversation and have lost our manners. Had Imus said this years ago, it would have been an issue. Had he used obsceneties years ago, he would have been fired, AND perhaps even blacklisted.