now, if we could just get rid of robert “kkk” bird for using the word.............
Actually, that raises a good point. I've listened to most of the tape (after a while, it broke down into basic family crap, and I lost interest), and it sounds like "Dog" eas trying to make the same point Byrd was trying to make -- that there are "black niggers" and there are "white niggers." That the N-word refers to a defect of character, not a skin color. In both cases, I call BS on that.
In the real world, a word means not only what you intend it to mean, but what the listener will hear. And as such, the N-word has no place in polite conversation, period. Even in impolite conversation, it's the most extreme form of obscenity.
Dog lashed out at his kid over what seems to me to be basic family I-don't-approve-of-your-girlfriend stuff. Kid lashed back by releasing the tape. Should this be a career-ender? No. But I don't blame A&E for not wanting to be associated with it just now.