Genny-- Don't apologize. There are any number of ways the wording of the subject header could've been changed to avoid the use of the "J" word, and I would think just about any reasonably competent english speaker would know it's an offensive epithet (not epitaph; that's what's on a gravestone). The people who ought to apologize are zimmern80 and those who seem to be defending him. Sure, different cultures have different levels of tolerance for certain kinds of racism, but that doesn't mean we ought to tolerate it here.