This year’s Indianapolis 500 auto race classic was won by Takuma Sato. He is Japanese. Terry Frei, a veteran sportswriter for the Denver Post, seemed to ask, how dare he? After all, the event was held on Memorial Day, May 29, a day set aside to venerate American war dead from all of its wars, including our war against Japan, 1941 – 1945. Terry Frei’s father fought in that war. Frei has now been fired by the Post, for his allegedly racist remark. But wait just a minute. In case no one noticed, Japan is not a race, but a country. Nor is Japanese a race, it is a nationality. Therefore, with all of that in mind, the question I ask now, because I have heard no one else ask it, is this: What if the winner of the 500 had been a German? What if Frei had remarked, I don’t feel comfortable about a German winning the Indy 500 on Memorial Day? Would that have been a racist remark? Perhaps Frei would never have made the remark had the subject person been a...(Read Full Article)