Dr. Laura Schlessinger N-word Rant: Drops N-bomb, Then Apologizes

I think Americans have lost their minds when it comes to racism!  This is getting ridiculous and way out of hand.  As a Montrealer, I live in a multi-ethnic city where whites, blacks, asians, muslims, etc. all seem to get along (more or less) without requiring endless dialogues about "the status of race" in our country and so on. I'll admit that some people are sensitive to certain words, and you shouldn't say those words to them, in an insulting manner.  But to try to abolish a word and pretend like it doesn't exist, or never to use it in any context whatsoever - to not even be able to have a discussion on the subject without saying the word in question - is, quite frankly, moronic. And there is a very valid point being brought up about white people somehow not allowed to say the n-word.  This, also, is ludicrous.  Personally, I am a white male, living in Canada, and my ancestry is Polish.  There is probably no white guy out there with less involvement, personal or ancestral, in the American slave trade.  Yet I can't even say the word without being branded a racist, because of my skin? ... I can think of few things that are not more inherently racist than that. If you want to talk about racial equality, talk about this: if one racial group is allowed to say a certain word, all racial groups are allowed to say it.  Final point.  Anything else is simply racist.  So either nobody gets to say the n-word, or if black people insist on saying it, then white people get to say it too.