Just the fact that Bundy used the phrase "The Negro" is... perfect.

[phantom power]

Hey Cliven, the 1960s called, they want their racist vocabulary back.

The past isn't dead. It isn't even past.
--William Faulkner

[pscot]

1. Unfair

The guy obviously doesn't get out much. You can't expect him to keep up.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. I'm still snickering about "Bunkerville, NV"

Archie would have used a more colorful term, I think.

[hfojvt]

3. it wasn't racist in the 1960s

"Throughout Alabama all sorts of devious methods are used to prevent Negroes from becoming registered voters, and there are some counties in which, even though Negroes constitute a majority of the population, not a single Negro is registered." Martin Luther King "Letter from Birmingham Jail" from "Why we can't wait" 1963 p. 83

Somewhere in the 1970s or 1980s it was decreed by somebody that only racists use the same term as Martin Luther King did.

Too bad for the old people who find out that "keeping up with the latest lingo" is far more important principle in this society than "respect your elders" ever was.

Bite me, language police, I am saying "Smokey THE Bear" until the day I die, and if any of my writings survive - long after that too.