Cracker, Spick, Chink, Nigger… Pollock, Dot-head, Rag-head, Wap; these are all derogatory terms bestowed upon diversified individuals by people belonging to other groups (and sometimes by people within those same groups).

Mostly, these terms are spoken in private, and done so because members of a particular group have failed to live up to the expectations established for them by the ones using these words. Sometimes people speak in anger, but only in an attempt to equally wrong the people in question that have wronged them. We all know the most efficient terms to use to get under peoples’ skin, and use them accordingly.

When these words get into the public arena, however, any sane person should expect offense to occur, and it’s perfectly reasonable to believe that negative consequences might follow. The recent Martin Luther King Jr. Day party held by mostly white, Tarleton State University students is such an example.

These students wore Afro-wigs, drank malt liquor, dressed as Aunt Jamina, carried fake handguns, and ate fried chicken, to name a few. This was a private function, and like the question, “if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make any noise?” hints, nobody would have been offended, and our harmonious world would keep spinning without incident if the students would have kept their actions in private. But, Jeremy Pelz posted photos of the event on a public website, which were discovered, and now must deal with the effects.

“You get what you get,” I always say, but lets be reasonable and rational with this case. Sure it’s offensive and juvenile, but we’re all guilty of such offenses at some point in our lives. Some people, however, are calling for these students’ heads, even conservative pundits who should know better, like Sean Hannity.

Hannity, who has been a champion of private property by fighting the Kelo decision that allows personal property to be taken and sold to private parties, seems like an overly emotional liberal regarding this incident. He’s morally outraged, but as I stated, this was a private function, and what qualifies more as private property than the freedom of assemblage, freedom of choice, and freedom of speech inside personal dwellings, which these students rightfully exercised?

If the university punishes these students, it’s a blow to personal freedom. If black students try to whip their asses on the other hand, well, that’s the way the pancake flops. And, speaking of pancakes, isn’t it funny how people would take offense to a white person dressing as like Aunt Jamina, the logo of a multi-billion-dollar corporation owned by rich, white billionaires?

Come on people! We can’t BAN human nature. We can’t ERASE human differences. Sometimes we just have to resolve ourselves to making fun of them.

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Hillary Clinton is on the campaign trail two full years before elections in 2008. I can’t see how it is possible for her to keep up the pace without tripping on her very forked tongue.

When asked why she voted for the war she said, “If I knew then what I know now, I wouldn’t have voted for it.” In other words; IF, in the next two years she becomes clairvoyant, she will make a good president.

IF, I knew all the lottery numbers then that I know now, I’d own Baghdad and if President Bush knew then what he knows now, the Republicans would still be in office. And, IF, the Queen had balls she’d be a King. What a waste of the English language.

But in all fairness to Hillary I’d like to pose a possible excuse for her inept voting record and her convenient ignorance of spousal fidelity.

You may have noticed, Hilary has a bobble head dependency, in that, being the most wonderfully intellectual woman on earth, she preempts everyone’s thinking with a bobble head “yes” motion signifying that she already knows what a person is going to say before they finish their sentence.

When asked if she thought we should go to war in Iraq she automatically bobbled her head yes while the question was being asked and when asked if she thought Bill was a loving husband she bobbled her head yes.

She bobbles her head yes to everything even if it is not a question.

Wouldn’t it be great to have a President who bobbles her head yes to questions that haven’t even been asked and who only acts on critical affairs after she finds out how they turn out?

Bobble, bobble – bobble, bobble.