I'm going to share a personal story with you. Years ago, there was an incident at my job where I was attempting to resolve a problem that needed immediate attention. In order to solve the problem I needed to place a phone call to a partner in business and in the course of my conversation, I said something like, "I have the "gal" in my office yaddah, yaddah, yaddah....". Unbeknownst to me, the term gal was viewed as an offensive term by African Americans that grew up in the South in the 1950's & 60's during the Civil Rights movement. I later found out that referring to an African American female as a "gal" was much like calling an African American man a "boy". I didn't grow up in the South, always lived in Michigan and unknowingly had truly insulted another person and that was not my intention...

Again, without getting into any "blow-by-blow", my post was intended to be mean spirited but not insensitive. I do hope that my apology and explanation make reasonable sense.

If I remember correctly old lix had an Abo son she openly admitted to even as racist as she was just goes to show you every one loves a little cup of cocoa every now and then

Thank you for your kind words however, there is a "but". Without going into the "blow-by-blow" that lead up to my post, the words I used were intended to be mean but not meant to be intentionally insensitive.

Good!