Great column today by Gerald in today’s Herald.
https://badgerherald.com/oped/2007/10/01/bet_mtv_worse_than_o.php
(Although I can’t imagine the two would get along in person, and would love to be a fly on the wall for their eventual meeting. Then again, when I first hired Gerald, he claimed to be conservative.) I used to watch the factor regularly back when I had more of a stomach for arguing with my TV set. Although I disagree with him on most everything, and thought he was a huge dick, he never struck me as a racist or bigot. (In fact, he’s always gone out of his way to say that gays and lesbians should be able to adopt)

Unaware of the extent of some racial issues and the cultural heritage of slavery and Jim Crow that we are living with today? Yes. Racist? No.

He was simply making a point to viewers who, like himself, are ignorant of normal Black society.
Although Bill O’s word choice wasn’t the best, that is how a lot of old white men speak, and he shouldn’t be punished or villified for it. If he’s making an effort to understand Black America, no matter how awkwardly, good for him. Bill O’s doing more than most if that is the case.