So if I make a joke about women or blacks or the French, it will be just a joke and I won't be considered a hate filled racist simply because I'm a white man from the south?

How gracious of you.

You will have to forvive me for being a little bitter. Due to personal circumstance, these kind of comments strike a very exposed nerve. 5 years of personal slander and lawsuits [simply because I held a minortity to the same employment stadards as everyone else] will do that to you, and I hope nobody on this board has to experience anything close to that.

Maybe I just shouldn't post when I'm sleep deprived and running on caffiene.