Here's a hearty "here, here" for Barry and Lawrence, who have been deeply thoughtful and appropriately outraged in their eloquent responses to this banal stupidity of Fears. Is the expression he used racist in its essence and core? Of course it is. (What, he's talking about painting his walls?) Is he a racist? Of course he is. Most of us are. It's in the culture, and the language. Does he consider it a problem to overcome and work against, or a privilege to smugly defend and euphemize? That's the issue. I think I know what side he (and his equally insensitive defender, Wuster) comes down on, shamefully enough. Ben Benjamin N. Wise Keene State College