Using the end word as a racial slur is completely different from using it in some other way. Any culture that takes this attitude is morally unprepared to solve real problems two. This is why some of my best friends are black. Calumny is so silly and destructive. We are mired in a culture that appears totally unable to even identify, much less solve, real problems because it has grown hysterical over imaginary ones.
Sam responds to the controversy over his friend Joe Rogan's use of the N-word and his subsequent public apology.
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