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I agree that the NAACP and the reverend involved in this issue are trying to see racial overtones where there *may be* none. I don't like that brand of oversensitivity any more than you (or the OP) do.

I still see no reason to address "black people" as one unit that needs to "lighten up." If I had received a paper in my anthropology intro course with that title and those terms... yes, I would feel justified in taking that student to the cleaners. I would be derelict in my job as an anthropologist and educator if I did not address that kind of writing directly. The fact that this is a public forum does not really change my reaction.

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