PG Staff:
To truly understand, any of us would have to be black. All I know is what I saw for many, many years in the south from "God-fearing, good people" who viewed some people as less than dirt and thought nothing of it. Cochell reminds me of many of these same people.
And, no, none of these people were in the KKK, but they allowed it to exist with their own actions and inactions.
There can be no "better" way to use this particular word because of all it has represented.
I'm not trying to be preachy or to jump on anyone, I just strongly believe that this is unacceptable for any reason and that hardly anything else in America equates to it. And I see a huge difference between Dusty Baker and Coach Cochell.