WCCO reports what can be viewed as over-reaction, today. (The Verboten word going unspoken in reporting.) Readers can decide whether it is a step too far to not write the wording which caused the fan to load up.
Reagan campaign advisor, Lee Atwater, 1981.
Atwater's statement made waves then. Has the pendulum swung too far? I was a ten year old in New Orleans when the Brown school desegregation decision was reached. Attending Lee School, a segregated grade school then named after Robert E. Lee, (since renamed years ago). I recall even at that age finding it curious to have students assembled each morning to recite the Pledge in a room with the flag in a corner, a large portrait of Lee on a facing wall. Times truly are different.