Very poor use of language in Talkmail
 

This is directed at the editor of Talkmail :


Who is "Lew Alcinder"?

Not only you address an American idol by a name he has unequivocally asked people to refrain from using but then you add insult to injury by misspelling it.

Very, very tacky.

At least call him

Roger Roger

Very poor use of language in this thread
 

I'm already regretting the language I wasted in this trivial thread.

yes but there are some of us who are "old enough" :eek: to remember him as lew alcindor and when he changed his name ;)

I sincerely doubt it was a slur, but that it rather was an honest slip - from someone old enough (as the previous poster implies) old enough to remember before May 1971, when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar went by his birth name, Lew Alcindor.

There's also no doubt that some could take offense, as we remember some of the slurs and stones hurled at Abdul-Jabbar (much as they were thrown at Muhammad Ali) for becoming Muslim and changing his name (and as we recall the attacks against Muslims and those who were merely different, like Sikhs, soon after Sep 11, 2001.

It's going to take some time before we finally grow enough as a nation to embrace our diversity; it's a continual challenge to each and every one of us.