Fire Imus?

[skcin]

I'd like to point out a few things:

1 - The color of a person's skin is much more obvious the people than their sexuality or their nationality for the most part. I'm NOT trying to say that other groups aren't stereotyped or demeaned or discriminated against. BUT. Black (and Hispanic and Asian and Middle Eastern) people are judged by racists immediately by their appearance alone.

2 - People have the right to be ignorant. People have the right to think what they want. People have the right to teach their kids what they want to (which is sometimes frightening.) But it shocks the hell out of me that people would admit these opinions in public! If I thought gay people were evil (which I obviously don't) I wouldn't be running around telling everyone that I believed that, and then act shocked when I pissed people off. Same with people who tell "black jokes" when they barely know you. WTF is that about? Why would you do that when you don't know how the other person feels?