The law school at Roger Williams University is named after Ralph R. Papitto, the longtime chairman of the university's board of trustees. At a May 2 trustee meeting, in which the participants were discussing the lack of racial and gender diversity on the board, Papitto (age 80, if that matters) reportedly became agitated and said: "They want us to add more poor kids and they want us to add more, well, I can't call them niggers, I learned that from Imus."
Papitto has resigned from the board to (here it comes) spend more time with his family. An effort to remove his name from the law school has commenced.
A colorblind world indeed.
