Read Roth's "The Human Stain"- Art becomes reality. In it a Professor alludes to two students who act like spies as "spooks",the vernacular term for spies. The students happen be black, and the professor, mistakenly denounced as racist, is pilloried in the politically correct backlash. Isn't it obvious that this was meant as a pun [albeit a bad one]  that played off Segal's title as a 'master' of the college? It would apply to anyone, regardless of colour. C'mon people-failing distinguish between real and imagined racism delutes the legitimate outrage we need to reserve for actual injustice.