Tempo does a nice job deconstructing the latest Jesse Jackson flap. The two most common mistakes made around these situations: If you think something dumb was said, don't dignify it by giving it such political potency--let dumb be dumb (and let the characters in the movie call it dumb, as they do). Second, is curtailing the dumb more important than allowing freedom of speech?
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