Are we too insensitive, or too sensitive with expression?

A pair of news items last week has left us wondering if we aren’t becoming too sensitive in our approach to race and cultural relations in society.

The first was the incident of five Whitworth University women soccer players who were suspended by their head coach for posting photos of themselves on social media in costumes that included the use of blackface makeup.

Blackface is a form of theatrical makeup used by performers to portray black people that began being used in the early 19th century. The practice contributed to the proliferation of negative and often harmful stereotyping of blacks,...