I agree that John McWhorter’s piece is excellent; thanks for including the link for readers here. I didn’t get into the specifics of Sellers’ remarks in this piece, partly because Dr. McWhorter and others have already done so. But I appreciate the note that there is more complexity to what Professor Sellers said — in what she thought was a private conversation with a friend — than in the overtly offensive remark I heard from a gym employee thirty years ago.