[CBFF] Fwd: Sorry

[aaron s]

Weird, I've seen a couple people get epitaph and epithet mixed up in the 
past few weeks.

> From: *Jerry Madsen* <jerrywm at gmail.com <mailto:jerrywm at gmail.com>>
> Date: May 3, 2007 2:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [CBFF] Sorry
> To: post at chicagobearsfanforum.com <mailto:post at chicagobearsfanforum.com>
> 
> Vic just made me aware of the fact my referring to Hester as a 'boy'
> was perceived as a racial epitaph by some.
> 
> I'm may not be anywhere near as congenial as Jim.
> 
> My use of the word "boy" in that context was entirely a reference to
> the fact that he is young, immature and yes, stupid.  If he was as
> pasty as Woody Allen, I'd still call him a 'boy'.
> 
> If, as your read that, you did so with a southern, Mississippi
> burning, dumb ass cracker inflection in your mind, I suggest you go
> back and read it without.
> 
> For my part, I'll make a concerted effort to choose my words more
> carefully so that folks aren't hearing something I'm not saying.  I
> find it difficult to apologize when I do something wrong and even
> more-so when somebody pulls-out a meaning that wasn't intended.
> 
> Jerry
> 
> 
> On 5/2/07, Jim Ferolie <ferolie at charter.net 
> <mailto:ferolie at charter.net>> wrote:
>  > Yes, it was a bad choice of words.
>  >
>  > My meaning was that when he talks he sounds like a rural hick in the
>  > Southern style, like he didn't grow up with a lot of interaction with

> anyone
>  > who wasn't also a rural hick. It's not a racial thing whatsoever, and

> I'm
>  > really embarrassed that it came off that way. I was actually trying
to
>  > defend him in some way, as he's been accused of being stupid.
>  >
>  > Mea culpa. I was writing too quickly.
> 
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