Howard is still being Howard

It's not just that 'racist' is such an ugly word. It's an important concept in a society with a history as stained with racism as ours. That's why it's so tragic when it's trivialized by inappropriate use, whether the NAACP's recent slander of the Tea Party Movement itself (and not merely a minority of its members) as racist, or former Vermont Gov. Howard "I Have a Scream" Dean's slanderous use of the term to describe the recent reporting of Fox News on the admittedly grotesque Shirley Sherrod incident.