I was going to comment on the whole L.A. Catholic church paying off the victims who fell prey to the pederasts cloaked as honorable, god-fearing men. However, a part of me felt conflicted since I attended Catholic school for 12 years and never encountered such vileness from any of the men or women of the clothe. I do feel like they could have bumped the $660 million settlement up just six million dollars more and said hurray for irony. I was also going to mention the fact that I saw Kathy Griffin a few weeks ago and they mentioned the term L.U.R.D, which in prison are women who are Lesbians Until Release Date. I thought P.U.R.V would have been appropriate for those Catholic priests who have stained the sanctity of their religion. Pedophiles Until Reprieved by the Vatican. The reprieve being, of course, allowing priests to marry so they don’t feel compelled to diddle little boys. I know it’s really PURBTV, but that doesn’t have quite the same ring. Plus, when you say it, you sound like either a drunk or a two year old.

Anyway, I changed my mind. I ran across this article tonight regarding Ralph Pappito and his slip of the tongue. Apparently, there was a meeting of the board of trustees at Roger Williams University to discuss the lack of minorities on the board, and good old Ralph, in his frustration with this whole diversity issue, let the N-word slip. I coulda swore we buried that word last week in Detroit. Somehow it exhumed itself and made a little trip to Rhode Island. I guess it feels safe there. Ralph then stated that he knew he shouldn’t use that word because of Don Imus. Funny, I don’t recall Imus ever saying that particular word — except on 60 Minutes. Okay, maybe he did use it. But I’m pretty sure it was a bad word before then. Poor Don. Can’t catch a break.

What really got me was the fact that 80 year old Ralph stated that he never used that word before. He claimed:

“The first time I heard it was on television or rap music or something

Ahhh…whenever you need a scapegoat, rap is there to lend you a hand. Who knew Ralph was a rap fan? Bet he’s an Old Dirty Bastard kind of guy.

I wonder if I can make it to 80 before I use a negative, sometimes controversial word. Maybe like, I don’t know, bullshit. Oops…guess not.

I was trying to get away from the race-related posts since someone recently asked me why I was so preoccupied with race. And I was forced to ask myself the same question. So, I was determined to write about other things for a while. But like Michael Corleone said, “Every time I try to get out, they pull me back in!”