Originally Posted by Quicksilver

People can choose to call themselves whatever they choose but most people realize that a forum like this is the public.

Having that knowledge (IMHO) means that intelligent people should exercise prudence and good judgement regarding the use of language especially if the choice of words are viewed as racially offensive.

Bottom line the language used (and we do know what I'm talking about) is not only offensive and unkind but frankly is unnecessary and no excuse for using it will give doing so credibility.