[YankeeReb]

Dick Gregory, a black comedian and one-time Presidential candidate, once said, “The word nigger means shiftless and lazy. So there are black niggers and white niggers.”

Didn't US Senator and progressive icon, Robert "Sheets" Byrd (D-Hell) once make that same statement?

[itsahoot]

Didn't US Senator and progressive icon, Robert "Sheets" Byrd (D-Hell) once make that same statement?

Yes he did, and unlike Paula Deen, he got to keep his job.