Randall Kennedy

And by the way, you've used the word hurt an awful lot.

So let's talk about hurt.

I think we need to be more careful with the way in which we deal with hurt because people can be justifiably hurt.

You can have justifiably hurt feelings.

And if somebody has justifiably hurt feelings, I then think that we should turn to the person who has hurt those feelings and say, you have acted wrongly because this person's feelings are justifiably hurt in relationship to what you've done.

On the other hand, there are people who have hurt feelings, and frankly, it's unjustified.

So just imagine the following.

Let's imagine that I give a talk about the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr., and then let's imagine that a Ku Klux Klansman comes up to me after my talk and says, oh, you have now hurt my feelings.

What, am I supposed to be, am I supposed to apologize?

Am I supposed to be regretful that my talk about the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr.

has hurt the feelings of the Klansmen?

No, my response is going to be, you know, you need to reevaluate your feelings because actually your feeling of hurt is unjustified.

And no, I'm, you know, no, there's no apology coming from me.

I think that's good, and I would associate myself with

Your vision, how can we maximize love?

No, I love that.

I think that's great.

So let's take that on.

I doubt that the way of doing that is to erase the infamous N-word.

I doubt that the way of doing that is