[CincyRichieRich]

Isn’t he that Boondocks hate cartoon author?

War on Poverty and 50 yrs of chaining blacks to government...no dads in household...no nuclear family...black male’s only positive strokes are from gang bangers or getting some girl pregnant...that’s the cause.

[Verginius Rufus]

John McWhorter is a professor at Columbia (was at UC Berkeley for some years) and has a Ph.D. in linguistics from Stanford. According to his biography on Wikipedia, he is a liberal Democrat. He makes sense sometimes...this column is a mix of good and bad ideas (he does indicate that he would be pleased if reparations were paid to descendants of slaves).

According to the Wikipedia article he thinks that when white people use the word "thug" it is the equivalent to their using the "N-word" but it is OK for black people to use the word. Ain't linguistics wonderful?