On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:59:08 -0400, BAR wrote:

H the K wrote:
Officials: Hub cop used racial slur in Gates e-mail
By Jessica Van Sack | Wednesday, July 29, 2009 |
http://www.bostonherald.com | Local Coverage

A Boston police officer allegedly sent a mass e-mail using a disgraceful
racial slur in referring to Harvard University professor Henry Louis
Gates Jr., prompting the commissioner to move immediately to fire the
cop, the Herald has learned.

Isn't Boston in the North? Seems it is a bit far from the alleged
"racist" South.

Racism exists *everywhere* in the US but especially in the south.