I don't think most white people find those words as offensive as anyone finds the N word. There was an interview on NPR the other day of an author who wrote a book on the power of words. The single most powerful word in the English language today is the N word, it out paces any curse word you can say in it's offensiveness. To compare it to words like whitey, and cracker is naive. I'm also tired of people complaining about the inequity of power between those words. We as a society give the words the power that they have, and that power is probably not going to wane in our life time.



You don't find disliking or hating someone solely based on skin color twisted? I think in reality you're more upset that someone you admired turned out to be a complete scum bag.