[AnotherUnixGeek]

Perry's father painted over the sign and turned the rock upside-down back in the early 1980s.

In the early 1980s Rick Perry was in his early 30s and the word was as offensive then as it is now.

What more should Perry have done?

Painted over the sign and turned the rock upside down before he reached early middle age are two suggestions that come to mind.

Cain dropped the ball here.

I disagree. There's no point telling 1 out of every 8 Americans that they shouldn't find a racial slur offensive - and it's not only black people who find such words offensive. I was around in the early '80s, and the word, then as now, was not OK.

That said, in the early 1980s Perry was a Democrat in the Texas legislature and it's no surprise that the media never bothered to raise this issue back then.

[Tribune7]

Painted over the sign and turned the rock upside down before he reached early middle age are two suggestions that come to mind.

The family didn't start leasing the land until the early 1980s.

The Perrys never owned the property.