Snake, Of course you can call it a crime. That's your right. I would hope that any ethnic or racial slur is offensive. It's degrading and humiliating to refer to another human being in a derogatory manner, as if to say they are somehow inferior. However, freedom of speech is what allows folks like skinheads and the KKK march and rally and have answering machine messages talking about certain races and creeds in an absolutely disgusting way. As much as we talk about how worthless it is to protect the civil liberties of certain criminals or flag-burners. What about groups like the KKK relying on those rights and freedoms to pass along their message full of hate?