Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 27, 2001
Transcript:
"I just yelled at Heather for saying, like, 'The Blacks.'" "Except she wasn't talking about people with dark skin. She was talking about her neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Black." "Sometimes 'politically correct' isn't correct at all." "I know. I felt like a retard." "But thoughtless is always thoughtless."
My son’s roommate some years ago had a (delightful) brother with Down Syndrome. Roommate was a young man of forceful personality and removed that word from the entire school population in about 3 days…