These young people may be onto something. Some weeks ago, Bernie Ward took a phone call from a high school student, too young to know anything of the history of racism and hurt the rest of us have known all our lives. The kid said she and her friends refer to each other as "nigga" in the context of walking up to one another in the school cafeteria and saying, "Hey, nigga, waz happenin'?" Uh? Black kids say it to each other and nobody thinks anything about it except if it's such a bad and hurtful term from whites, why isn't it so bad if blacks say it - to each other?

Different question.

The question here is, are these young people, Margot asking us to look at pussy and the P word in a different light, and young whites and Mexicans referring to one another as niggahs? Are they telling us oldsters they want no part of our inflicted pain and questionable values known throughout our years and tears of struggle? That they've settled the "names" matter in ways we know nothing of? That they've found a peaceful way out and when us oldsters all die off they'll be able to actually get on with their lives in ways Martin and the rest of us only dreamed of??

Ed. note: Check out Black Mischief by Christopher Hitchens in The Nation's Minority Report, March 4, 2002

We have linked Margot's pussy article at Salon, and herewith is also a link to her "Team Pussy" T-shirt offer. We'll probably all get fired for this wholesome embrace of Margot's etmological pussy exploration, but what else can we do? We've got balls, and the feminine and feminist counterpart regardless of gender is pussy! Nothin' better we know!!

When Voter.com shut down their website, we re-posted two other on pussy point articles written by Margot at networkingtheinternet.com. See It's Not Just About Choice and Femonics 101.

The "choice" article is a timeless classic in journalism; stating the stone cold reality of just where women stand in our present day society, and just exactly who keeps them at a political stand still.

Margot writes, "Reproductive rights have everything to do with women's economic and political power, women's access to education and healthcare, women's status in society and women's abilities to take care of themselves and their children."

Quoting birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger, "If a woman does not have the right to control her own body, she has no rights."

"Choice is a political barometer," writes Margot, "indicative of how politicians feel not only about the basic rights of women, but the role of women in society, their beliefs on sex education, healthcare, welfare, poverty, the economy and the part government should play in an individual's life. A position on choice indicates whether or not your representative will fight to get your kids vaccinated and to make your contraception affordable."