I wish that the recent debate over Imus could convince other white men that offensive language is potentially devastating to credibility and careers. But some people are so unreconstructed and recalcitrant that NOTHING seems to be able to make them reconsider their obtuse blindness.

Have you axes and your hate speech! Just like I don't visit Klan rallies, I don't open any pages where I think I'm going to see symbols that remind me of the Confederate flag. This is why the blogosphere is divided into the whitosphere, the Afrosphere and the other flags. Some people actually LIKE blog apartheid, and they show it in their every word and deed.