Michael Richards couldn't
Ted Nugent couldn't...
Don Imus, couldn't even say HO.
its just....what is the word?
Oh yeah, now I remember......
Posted on 08/13/2010 3:55:29 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
LOS ANGELES – Talk radio host Dr. Laura Schlessinger has issued an apology for saying the N-word several times in an on-air conversation with a caller that she said was "hypersensitive" to racism.
Schlessinger said on her website Wednesday that she was wrong in using the word for what she called an attempt to make a philosophical point.
"I articulated the N-word all the way out — more than one time," Schlessinger said in comments from the opening of her radio show that she posted on her site. "And that was wrong. I'll say it again — that was wrong."
She said she "realized I had made a horrible mistake, and was so upset, I could not finish the show."
Schlessinger said she pulled herself off the air at the end of the hour.
During the exchange on Tuesday's show, Schlessinger said the woman who called herself Jade was too sensitive for complaining that her husband's friends made racist comments about her in their home.
When the woman asked if the N-word was offensive, Dr. Laura said "black guys say it all the time," then went on to repeat it several times.
Schlessinger did not direct the epithet at the woman, but said she used it to suggest how often she hears it, and that it should not automatically be cause for offense.
When the caller objected, Schlessinger replied: "Oh, then I guess you don't watch HBO or listen to any black comedians."
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The ridiculous fear of the word nigger is an embarassment in a supposedly civilized world. Saying “n-word” doesn’t magically mean the reader/listener doesn’t actually understand the actual word is what’s being mentioned.
I work with black and Hispanic teenagers who use the word constantly with each other. But adults can’t even say the word in a discussion OF the word.
Let's bring back Samuel Clemens so he can apologize too.
ML/NJ
Schlessinger is correct. Unfortunately, she will probably have to kiss Jesse Jackson’s butt now.
Read rap lyrics out loud in public or at your workplace and see what happens to you if you are not black yourself.
Can’t anyone say anything ‘off beat’ anymore, without apologizing?
I grow weary of all of this political correctness.
I am sick to death of people saying and/or doing something and then “taking it back”. People need to stand up for what they said or have done. Good grief, I hate this apology culture we are in.
And what if an adult looked at a black person and said “You’re nothing but an n-word.”???? Would that be dicrimination?
Maybe it’s just me, but I think the F word is much worse than “nigger”, depending on the context. Frankly, I learned over two decades ago that the word is not necessarily about race. I’ve come across “niggers” that are also white “crackers”.
And don’t even get me started on “niggardly”. It is a favorite word of Tom Clancy’s.
Words have meaning. I will not let the ignorant silence me. Especially in a country with our first amendment.
You wrote the N word!
Michael Richards couldn't
Ted Nugent couldn't...
Don Imus, couldn't even say HO.
its just....what is the word?
Oh yeah, now I remember......
You mean people still tune into this show?
It has been said that nigger means nothing more than worker,
maybe every one knows this, so thats why they hate the word so much.
Schlessinger is correct. Unfortunately, she will probably have to kiss Jesse Jackson’s butt now.
Throw a $100g Jesse's way and absolutin forthcoming.
Schlessinger is correct. Unfortunately, she will probably have to kiss Jesse Jackson’s butt now.
Throw a $100g Jesse's way and absolutin forthcoming.
Lenny Bruce was also a well documented drug addict that belonged in a padded room.
Don’t get me wrong, I actually appreciate what he accomplished.
He was a major league head case, though.
Listen to the rap on the movie “Office Space” .....
Sad, but very true. But even a blind squirrel finds an “Acorn” once in a while.
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