Posted on 06/05/2007 9:48:37 PM PDT by flowerplough
As Larry Wilmore, jokingly billed as "Senior Black Correspondent" on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, explains in the interview and defends the N-word skit: "It is satire."
Gross asks, "Why do you want to use the "un-bleeped" version (as the excerpt to be broadcast), knowing that whenever you use this word some people are going to be really offended no matter what the context?" Wilmore replies, "Terry, you haven't had Al Sharpton in your office in a while and you need him to get there."
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This Lady is an embarassment to Philadelphia and the Delaware valley!
I’m a baby boomer and I can testify that the n-word was non-existent in the world (white world anyway). No one, no where ever used the word.
It was almost lost knowledge until Spike Lee started making his movies. He reinstated the word and brought it back into usage.
It is still non-existent within my world.
I can't believe adults are so afraid of a word. It's just a word. Grow up and get over it.
Larry Wilmore has a terrific sense of humor and Terry Gross is a neurotic, guilt-ridden white liberal.
Larry created, among other things, “The Bernie Mac Show”, a great family sitcom. He also appeared in the classic “Diversity Day” episode of NBC’s “The Office”, which skewered diversity/sensitivity training.
Larry can say whatever he wants!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“I’m a baby boomer and I can testify that the n-word was non-existent in the world (white world anyway). No one, no where ever used the word.”
Where did you grow up? On the moon?
Yay - more liberal hypocracy. :D
I wonder if Mizz Gross has ever heard of Robert Byrd (D-KKK)?
Phoenix, AZ. I don't know what to tell you. My mother grew up in West Virginia in a coal mining family. Her outlook on life was that we were all God's children doing the best we could in life and that included black people. But, I never heard bad talk about blacks in school or later working at Motorola and then working for a bank. People just did not reveal any racism - they were mostly conservative.
I wonder if that started because of rap music?
However ... on the subject of language -- I'm 46 and the only white person I've ever known (I'm serious) who used the n-word was a guy I knew in college (he was from NYC) and that was more than 25 years ago.
If people don't like the n-word, they should talk to the blacks about it. Leave us white folks out of it. We're not the problem.
Richard Pryor — c1974. Way before Lee.
But to be honest, some of my older relatives and people my age that were angry with a “person of color” used that word. too.
Ditto in East Tenn. When I was about 5 years old, I dropped the N bomb in my Mama's hearing. Very seriously she told me, "We do not use that word. It makes them feel bad. They are not worse than us, just different. We call them colored people."
Those who did use the word - we had a name for them - "white trash."
Oh, I didn't know that. They sure never put it on TV. You would have to see him in person I guess.
They used to release comedy “albums” back in the day. Pretty much just a recording of standup routines pressed onto vinyl. George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, even Mel Brooks. And if you had HBO in the early days of cable, you could see some of these guys doing their stand up acts.
Pryor was especially vile; every other word was either an F Bomb or the “N” word. Makes The Blue Collar Comedy Tour seem like a Disney cartoon movie in comparison.
Sometimes I wish that black people who are so hurt and angry could know the truth of families like ours. I’m sure it would allow them to have a more hopeful point of view. I wish they knew that lots of white people never bad mouth them or wish them ill. Of course, it’s basically a Christian virtue, I think.
Unfortunately, you are mistaken.
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