This double-standard is getting old.  Either the word is wrong and offensive or it’s not.  It shouldn’t matter what the color of the person who says it is. 

Tommy determined to set the all time “ni@@erhead story record .

One might conclude he’s just looking for an excuse to use the word.

Sherri Shepard was the same person who thought the world was flat right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF1NUposXVQ

Pretty sure Louis CK said it best…

“Sticks & Stones”

I have to admit that it sounds weird when white people say the N-word, not just because of its meaning, but that its just something I’m not used to hearing white people say out loud. Its like when my parents quote a rap song. It just doesn’t sound right to my ears. I know Barbara meant well when she quoted it, and Sherri Shepard reacted the wrong way to it. But as a black guy I admit to cringing every time I hear a white person use that word. Now to all these whites who complain about the double standard of who can use the word. And angry that they cant say it, I just feel that the ONLY reason a white person should EVER use that word is when they are quoting somebody. If not, then THERE IS NO REASON.

Sherri Shepard is just another dim bulb. You are correct. She reacted the wrong way. She should know better because she has been sitting with Walters all these years.

I think everyone should refrain from using that word, regardless their race. It’s a hateful word and no longer serves any constructive purpose when used by blacks as a “taking it back” kind of thing. The time has come to let it go. When decent people of all colors do that, there won’t be any ambiguity about intent – we’ll know that anyone who insists on still using it (any race) is a moron and/or shit-stirrer.

But….but….but…. we have to be politically correct so as to appease the Al Sharpton’s of the world.

This is a case of having a racial chip on your shoulder. Barbara Walters allowed herself to be cowed by white guilt and political correctness. Walters should be able to speak the name of Perry’s ranch in the course of reporting the story. Sherri Shepherd is an idiot. It’s fine if Sherri is offended. Let her be. It’s okay to be offended in this country. It’s Sherri Shepherd who has the problem. She should probably get help for her extreme racial sensitivity.

Educated, cultured people write N*gro. Not sure how you pronounce that.

Agreed

Fucker.

I think she owes Barbara an apology. Barbara was simply quoting what was written. Changing it to “N word” isn’t going to change what was written, and honestly, who hears the phrase “N word” and associates it with anything but that? The same intent and meaning is still being conjured in your mind.

There is a clear cut difference between the way Barbara used it, to report on a story, and the way some people who cry of a double standard want to use it to reclaim their favorite epithet. I think she really did hurt Walters by lumping her in there with those types.

What is worse is how she goes on to spout a bunch of epithets herself, while acknowledging that some groups might not be comfortable with her using those words. Did she forget she was on TV? She just had a complete logic fail.

Tommy, do the higher ups at Mediate dictate which stories you write about or is it your decision to beat this non story to death?

The N word is off limits but the word Teabagger is open season…..more liberal hypocrisy!!!

Wow, that was profound.

I agree. While I’ll tell you that there is definitely a difference in intent between the way some use it among themselves now, and the way it was used against them before, you are absolutely right that it is not working as a “taking it back” kind of thing. As long as anyone continues to use it, racists will try to use that to keep a foot in the door, so to speak, so that they can return to being able to use the word in the way they want to use it.

Lets be real. Sherri Shepard isn’t the brightest bulb in the room. I dont think this is much of a story. She overacted to Barbara, and thats it.

The whole debate is about how Walters sounds when she says it, but Mediaite censors the word so we can’t hear the differences. 

Really? Go play somewhere.

Problem with what you are saying is that there is a certain influence that hip hop and black culture has on this country.  For many years black culture and music has lead the pop culture that our youth welcomes both black and white.  This same culture then begins to find it’s way in to all of our lives.  My point is that you can not simply own the word, especially if you make it a widely used word in pop culture.  If you really want the word to go away then kill it…  don’t make it part of the popular vernacular of the day, as it will find it’s way back into our society and you will not be able to have it used only as you see fit.  

Yawnnnn.. I guess this is news.. I guess.. I mean I guess its somewhat entertaining too? I guess?! 

She offended someone she’s been working with for quite some time. She needs to go and apologize.

I think it’s offensive 100% of the time, no matter who says it. However, there’s a more hurtful connotation for blacks when a white person says it vs. hearing it from another black; after all, it’s far more likely that a black person has been the target of a racial insult from a white than from another black. So I think it depends on the hearer-of-the-word’s experience as to degree of offense taken.

As I said in another comment, it would be great if everyone would stop saying it, period. When it’s not in the common vernacular, anyone who uses it can be called out by anyone of any race for using a slur that’s just plain offensive to the *human* race.

Who give a flying what you think of the double standard.

Are you subject to the word? Probably not so what value does your opinion have?

Big breaks in the Fast and Furious story today, it would seem that Holder has some explaining to do…  Some new and incriminating emails have come out…  wonder how long it will take that story to appear here.  

Yes really!!! If you don’t like the truth don’t read my posts!!!

I’ll refrain… for a moment… and allow one of your fellow Tea Party posters this opportunity to explain to you why that is such a stupid comparison and complaint.

About as much as yours.   Or does the color of your skin mean your opinion is more valuable?

Anytime you are using a word in an attempt to denigrate someone, it’s wrong. 

This whole think is really silly.  It’s about INTENT with anything anyone says.  Was Barbara’s INTENT to offend people and call them by a racial slur?  No, so forget about it.

I can think of hundreds of other words that said with INTENT would sound much worse.  

Seriously? That sounds like front page news material. I have been here on Mediate and haven’t heard a peep about Fast-n-Furious.
I guess I will have to go to Fox News or some other News outlet that doesn’t screen what they report on based on Political winds!!

“The question of how journalists, and pundits, should deal with the word is a tricky one. There is no hard and fast rule. Generally speaking, I believe the uncensored use of the word should be avoided unless it’s necessary, which itself is a somewhat subjective standard. We have, thus far, used the censored version of the word in headlines and lead paragraphs, and used the uncensored name sparingly in the body of our posts. In a case such as this, I believe it is necessary to include the uncensored version somewhere in the reporting, for the sake of accuracy, and to compellingly convey the offensiveness of the name.”

What utter and complete crap!  Tommy, you have set your submission setting on AUTOMATIC FIRE with this lame story and you have luxuriated in the use of the offending term for over a day now.  I’ve seen the reference to this name more in the last day than in my previous decade, all courtesy of your keyboard.  If you were so squeamish over the term you would reference it euphamistically, or use it one time early in a piece and then reference it indirectly.  You have let fly with it in four pieces now in roughly a 24 hour cycle, all in an attempt to slander an individual. and hey, it’s not your fault, blame WaPo!  They made you do this!

There is a report just crossing the wires stating that Tommy Christopher is now using the “word” in question…. in place of his Viagra. Tommy is said to be thrilled…..his better half…. not so much.

I don’t make this stuff up ya know…..

Michelle, I’m not buying it. I’m not buying this act. You know better. Colorado_Conservative knows better. You’re playing politics with it right now, but you know better. There’s a lot of people I disagree with often, on this site, but I know they know better, which is why I left it open for them to explain to Colorado what I hope he already knows. The comparison is stupid.  

Look you FREAKING IDIOT!

If you aren’t subject to the word then it has NO impact on your life (of course we are speaking mentally here).

So why would your opinion about something that doesn’t affect you mean anything?

So what you’re fed up?  No one cares – least of which the people who are truly affected by this word and its connotations.

It sounds so much better when Chapelle says it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtqqMchhUkw

Pure childishness; though I’m frankly surprised Babwa pushed back at all. White liberals usually fold like tents in the face of righteous black anger no matter how retarded.

called out for saying niggerhead?  what crock.  do you know how many places in the USA are named SQUAW  POINT?

So let me get this straight, you are angry and screaming at me because I said no one should use the word?  Got it!

While I find the word distastful even when uttered by a black person in a different context than the original meaning, I’m not black,  so I’ll reserve judgement on black people using it as I have no personal experience with the word being directed at me (by black or white people).

As for those bleating on and on about “double standards”, yes, there is a double standard.

Black people get a pass saying the N word.  White people don’t.

And you have a problem with this….why?

Do you actually WANT to use it?  Is that your problem?

Do you REALLY want to get into a discussion on “double standards”?  Really?

Considering there was a double standard that black americans were less than humans compared to whites for hundreds of years and then a double standard that they were less the real citizens for another hundred after that, I think I can deal with the fact that I ‘suffer’ the double standard of not being about to spout off the N word whenever I feel like it.

If you can’t understand the subleties of the race issue in america, perhaps you shouldn’t comment…?  Hmm? (talking to you Michelle)

I don’t care if you “buy it” or not.   I stand by my statement.  I’m not saying the words are equal, but if you are using a word to denigrate a person, it’s wrong, period. 

I am white.  I am routinely described as one of the following by various ethnic groups:

Honky
Gringo
Cracker
White Devil
**** sauce
Blanco
Wigger
Peckerwood
Wonder Bread
Whitey
White Trash or WT
Round-Eye
Powder
Pale Face
Goy
Gomer
Fish-Belly

I agree with you.  I remember being little and saying that word in front of my mom.  She lit into my narrow behind so fast, I didn’t even get a chance to clench my butt.  Lesson learned.  I’m offended when anyone uses the word, but it does sound weird to hear a white person say it.  Depending on the context (as with Walters), I wouldn’t be so offended.  It’s just one of those things I wish would go away…

Sherri can not hold her own with the other view co hosts.This mornings show was a perfect example. I hope she leaves the show.

You forgot “Racist!”

Michelle if you and Colorado want to revel in ignorance like a pig in mud then I guess I have to just accept that’s how you are. I was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt by saying I don’t buy it, and chalking your posts up to political posturing. That’s nice that you at least acknowledge the words aren’t equal, but when you jump into a conversation where someone has tried to compare the two, and come to their defense the way you did, you only aid in the false perception being put forth that the two experiences are equal.

I agree with you to a point.  I would ONLY add that NO ONE should say it.

Shouldn’t use it, think it, put it in songs, say it in jest or even between friends. 

As a white person, I cringe when I hear ANYONE say it and yes, I actually think sort of badly about those who are African-American and fling it around.  It just really bothers me.

It’s an anachronistic, hurtful and profoundly insulting word.  It belongs in the dustbin of the ages.  I’m not saying that as ”a white person” that wants to say that word, in fact it’s the opposite.  Not interested, won’t quote it, even if I were a journalist, which I’m not.  You can tell a story to intelligent adults in a civilized and polite way, that conveys the point without having to be graphic.

/my two cents

Most of you are arguing about something that The View and Barbara Walters doesn’t even care about…They made these statement to generate publicity, which it is doing….This show has been doing this the past year, and they like the results…Evidently, they want to be known as a reality show….Babs needs to retire, and the talk shows with these people trying to all talk over each other need to go away……

She’s a big phony. 

Sorry Censure, I do think the N word is worse, but you are trying to rationalize the use of the word teabagger and I’m not going to let you.  If you are using the word to denigrate someone, you are no better than the person throwing around the N word. 

Says the retard!

I agree that no one should use the word, that’s my opinion, BUT as a white person, I have no business telling the black community what should and should not offend them.

I have no business whining about a double standard of not being able to use the N word when their community had the double standard of not being real humans or real citizens.

The double standard the african american community has faced in this country is just an itty bitty more significant than what you’ve suffered isn’t it?

I’d sound like a silly insensitive white bitch if I were bitching and moaning about unfair double standards.

I’d sound like you.

It’s just a fucking word.

I think we should be a little more concerned about the markets tanking, 

and our President now being able to shoot us in the head without due process.

Bull, if you can’t call out those in your race that throw it around, you give up the right to be offended by it, in my humble opinion.  But if it makes you feel better to call me a b**ch, have at it.  It’s not the worst thing I’ve been called here.  Not even close.

I don’t think teabagger refers to race…(unless you are admitting that the tea party is almost exclusively white…?)

And unless teabaggers have a long and ugly history of being abused, raped, and murdered while hearing the epitaph that I am unaware, you just sound like an ignorant douchenozzle even making the comparison.

Teabaggin fool!

Ain’t America Grand!

“Do you actually WANT to use it?  Is that your problem?”

LOL, You tell ‘em Chris.

Sounds like you need to find some new friends.  

Two wrongs don’t make a right. 

Fool.

You forgot teabagger. By ethnic whiteys.

If you are quoting someone (or the name of something) then you should be able to quote word for word.

It’s always funny to watch black people discuss the proper etiquette of using the  “N” word.

Sherri, my dear, you have to remember lib logic:calling a woman a “bitch” is a term of endearment - this we learned from Joy on “The View- so obviously , using the “N” word is also a term of endearment.

Sherri, please stick to lib logic!

It was also funny watching Babs bitch-slap Sherri into line during the break. I bet she told her, “listen bitch, if you want to see your fat ass in that chair tomorrow, you had better come up with something after the break.”

And Sherri did!

Thank you TC for informing everyone on the proper use of the “N’ word, you pompous charlatan!

Barbara Walters didn’t get it.  

Yes, Sherri is.

Ah poor widdle baby!

How did you ever withstand such oppression?!!

Were you raped while called cracker?  While the police looked the other way or took part?

Were you enslaved?

Were your civil liberties trampled?

You are one silly white girl.

P.S.

as one who is often called such by her hispanic husband, it is GringA and BlancA when referring to a female….

Whoopie: “Ni-gaaah”

Walters: “Ni-gerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr”

They are rather niggardly in noticing that about themselves.

So that explains your hate.

What a racist bigot you are.

It was a huge over-reaction. But she’s young, and paid to act that way. Go figure.

The politically-correct MORONS turn on themselves – you gotta’ Love It!

She also thought that history didn’t start until Christ was born.

says the lib bigot!

I don’t feel like waiting as a moderator reviews my original reply to determine that my spelling out of the “N word,” as opposed to this juvenile referencing of it, is much less offensive than some of the comments routinely posted on this site. So here it is in edited form. If the original pops up eventually that is why.

No, Michelle. I am not trying to rationalize the use of the word tea bagger. In fact, you won’t find anywhere where I’ve used the word. I don’t resort to that. What I am trying to patiently convey to you, and Colorado, is that a discussion on the use of the “N” word is neither the time nor the place for either of you to insert your agenda about liberals using “teabagger,” especially when you do so in a way that suggests an equivalence between the two. 

Louis CK has never said anything the best. Louis can  FK Louis CK.

Show me a *race* of teabaggers and I’ll show you Mary Cheney’s boyfriend.

In a better world Walter would have told Shepard to grow the hell up and to remember who thought enough of her to hire her silly ass.

Yep! It is indeed  funny to watch.

“You, sir, may call me the “N” word, but you sir, may not!

And which part of me saying I’m not equating the 2 don’t you understand?

Teabagger is an ugly word, think about it for just a moment, then think that it is used to describe people for the only crime of having a differing view as to what is the right course for this country..  Honestly you can’t believe all the racist crap that is written about republicans…  

Granted Teabagger does not have the history that the other word has, nor have the Tea Party folks had to endure the history in this country that past generations of blacks have had to endure.  But the word is offensive in it’s own right, you are smart enough to see that but it probably does not bother you so much to see that word used here or other places.  But I would ask you to pay attention to Tea Party folks on TV reports and else where.  We are for the most part talking about people’s parents and grandparents who really wish no one any harm, they just see things differently than progressives do.

You are right, the other word has no place in our society, I would suggest to you that not only you but most people who see other’s use that word immediately lose respect for the person using it.  That is in a way poetic justice as those who utter that word only bring scorn and condemnation upon themselves..  

Teabagger at least with progressives seems to be a word when used releases endorphins for all when written here or read…  but it is still an ugly word used to describe a fellow American based solely for his political affiliation.  

Barbara wasn’t cowed by anything, you dolt. If anything, she was very patronizing. Learn how to watch TV!

She also thought Puerto Rico was a foreign country.

Say, what’s that little thang your avatar is sucking on?

So far Tommy is pretty mum about 0bama being spotted at a New Black Panther rally. Although Tommy’s name has come up at Hot Air about the incident. Hmmmm.

Of course, Malik Shabazz isn’t King Shamir, so let’s hear a bit from Shabazz about Shamir’s tirade, courtesy of Tommy Christopher: see the video here: http://tiny-url.org/Tommy_NBP

“Not in that context”? When Tommy follows up with the obvious
question, Shabazz backs off with the qualifier, “For the sake of this
interview, no context.” Does a rejection of killing babies really require a context?

Somehow, I’d consider a campaign alliance between a group with these
points of view and a presidential candidate a little more noteworthy in
terms of character than when a candidate’s father painted over an ugly
epithet on a hunting ranch, but that’s also true of a man who spent 20
years in Jeremiah Wright’s church, too, a topic that the media also
avoided. If the Washington Post wants to take aim at something relevant
to the campaign, maybe they could find the answer to another of
Breitbart’s questions, which is whether this is the same Malik Shabazz
that Secret Service records show as a visitor to the White House after
Obama took office — and whether that had anything to do with the
Department of Justice vacating a case it had already won against Shamir.

But saying something that some pampered talk show finds offensive to her race, and hanging out with racists are two different animals.

What you say has little impact when your actions assist in doing just that. When you come to the defense of someone trying to make the comparison, you are assisting him in doing that. If you wanted to make some point about people using teabagger, you should have waited until someone did, and said your peace. Don’t throw in with someone trying to make a comparison between “teabagger” and “the N word.”

I don’t know, but speaking of things small…

What I
don’t get is why any White person would WANT to say it. Every time this comes
up in the media, we see and hear a litany of people stating that Black people
use the word. Why does it matter if someone else uses it? If you feel the word
is wrong, why use it just because someone else is?

I also
don’t get why Barbara had to say the word. Why not show the picture used on ABC
news instead of saying the word?

What I
don’t get is why any White person would WANT to say it. Every time this comes
up in the media, we see and hear a litany of people stating that Black people
use the word. Why does it matter if someone else uses it? If you feel the word
is wrong, why use it just because someone else is?

I also
don’t get why Barbara had to say the word. Why not show the picture used on ABC
news instead of saying the word?

So we can’t have English as an official language, but we can ban words from being said by Caucasians!

WHY?

“negative reaction should still be expected, and understood.”

That is such condescending crap.  This woman is an adult who knows she is not sitting across from a KKK member.

Adults check their mental responses and mediate them accordingly based upon the facts of the situations.

Shepard remarks were a needless and self-indulgent slap at a colleague who certainly deserves more respect than this tripe..

Cigaaarrrrrrrrrrrrr?

What’s getting old is the fact that the racism card has been used so much by the Dems that they have desensitized it. When everytime someone disagrees with Obama youre called a racist it becomes a joke. Racism card overplayed!

You’re just mad because you want the story to go away!!

But then her and Wooooopi would have walked off the set. Crying raaaaaaacist.

Why would the President want to shoot you in the head, unless you’re a terrorist who proclaimed war on this country??

You do understand that Shepard was born in 1967, don’t you?

You do understand that Shepard was born in 1967, don’t you?

So you’re an expert on how African-Americans feel about racism??

The story is a fake ladies.. Loosen the panties.
Thanks for the likes , 1018

They’re indoctrinated by the Democrats and the Democrat’s Mainstream Media to think and react that way.
That’s what Herman Cain is talking about when he says “brainwashed”.
His position is totally validated through incidents like this.

He said it child.

try again!

I view teabagger the same way I do libtard and all of those other juvenile terms people come up with, or parrot, and think they’re clever for doing so. Check out that stoned fool above that keeps insisting I’m a “lib bigot,” though he, or she, probably hasn’t even bothered to read my condemnation of Sheppard. Nevertheless, none of them compare to the “N” word. I shouldn’t even have to have this discussion with grown people. If you see a post about the “N” word your brain shouldn’t even be thinking of a way to correlate that with teabagger.

Babs was bitch-slapping Sherri!

Ndanielson, aren’t you the clever coward? Hey, I actually used the word, the whole word, in a post earlier! You know, THAT word. Does that make you jealous, coward?

Hey I actually agree, Sherri is pretty slow though, she thought the world might be flat and she thinks the earth is 6,000 years old. She’s a Jehovah’s witness and those guys tend to be a little scary.

Her argument is so flimsy too, “I just don’t like hearing you say it”? Really? Walters is  on your side. You’d think Sherri would be able to understand they are having an adult conversation… Oh well.

This exists- niggerhead-gate

To ChrisG:

Oh. Snap.

:)

She said live on The View that  nothing came before Jesus:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psGLXqW1kUs

That’s some funny shit right there.

I kind of agree with you.  Whenever she talks, I’m ready to turn the channel.

Bless her heart.

Whoopi talked about how the “N” word was used to advertise products.

This  was the funniest attempt to PC something that was not PC able:

http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/38280/nigger+head+clams/

She is the dumbest hostess on there are you are her match.

Walters’ use of the word was in relying a quote.  She wasn’t making it in the context of some superfluous use of  hip-hop jargon.

Frankly, slavery ended a long time before Shepard was born.

Any experience of discrimination this successful woman may have experienced as a person of color does not exempt her from being mature enough to gauge her responses in light of the woman sitting across from her.

In that moment Shepard refused to recognize her years long colleague as being anything other than skin color.

That’s not “understandable” in any sense.

Were you enslaved?  No, Sherri wasn’t

Were your civil liberties trampled? No Sherri’s were not.

Thank you for being such a dumb liberal.

I am white.  I am routinely described as one of the following by various ethnic groups:

Honky
Gringo
Cracker
White Devil
**** sauce
Blanco
Wigger
Peckerwood
Wonder Bread
Whitey
White Trash or WT
Round-Eye
Powder
Pale Face
Goy
I deserve reparations, to be assessed against every ethnic group that ever regurgitated such trash talk about the white race and paid to all white people.

Why would we care, it’s a non-story.  It makes the liberal media look bad for pushing it, not Perry.

I deserve reparations, to be assessed against every ethnic group that ever regurgitated such trash talk about the white race and paid to all white people.

Honey, you already get it. It’s called WELFARE! (duh)

I still want to know what little thang that is your avatar is sucking on.

What an original thought! I have never heard your perspective before. Tell me, how did you come up with that all by yourself? 

Moo-chelle, sweetie, this is something we agree on.

Mormon’s were the target of an extermination order by a sitting US Governor and you don’t hear me whining about it now. 

I agree, I don’t think Perry stands for the entire GOP and this story doesn’t mean all Republicans are racist..

You sound jealous, skippy!

Let me get a pencil. Wow- did you just make that up?

Duh!

I can appreciate your comment below, and I would hope that you might understand my objection to the term teabagger being used to describe my mother…  as the word has a very explicit sexual connotation.  I can accept your point that we are talking about apples and oranges but I still take exception to the word and if you think about it you probably do too. 

Shepard most certainly should apologize.  Treating a colleague as though they are in the end a suspect stranger harboring racist leanings is inexplicable, unless she’s suggesting that Walters truly IS that.

Since the majority of you make the rules around here, you apparently like to make things difficult for yourselves. For that reason, black folks have never understood your crazy asses, and never will.

So is your face, skippy!

Where did you get that pic of Bill Maher in drag?

Put the crack pipe down, honey. You’re not making any sense.

Sounds as insipid as “Two wrongs don’t make a right” doesn’t it?

Oh snap – it’s on now!

Yo mamma so fat, her belt size is equator.
Yo mamma so ugly, she make a freight train take a dirt road.
Yo mamma so stupid, she stared at a OJ bottle ’cause it said “concentrate”.

Whatever is eating you – must be suffering horribly.

Judging by the old saying, “What you don’t know can’t hurt you,” you are  practically invulnerable.

BTW, where did ya get that pic of Bill Maher in drag, skippy?

Stone – I’m just having fun!  It’s the internet dammit – not real life.  I’m just playing: I’m not seriously making fun of your mother (rest her soul if that’s the case).

Lighten up a bit. :)

Honestly you can’t believe all the racist crap that is written about republicans…

Show me a *race* of republicans and I’ll show you a sensible post authored by our ‘esteemed’  commentor, Michelle. I.E. I believe you MEANT to say, “Honestly you can’t believe all the _cruel_ crap that is written about republicans…”

When we actually start giving a shit about what Sherri Shepard thinks is when it’s time to fold up camp. It isn’t the first time she has made a fool out of herself and the View just keeps renewing her contract…

WE pronounce it “African American,” fool!

Thanks for talking for all black people, you pompous POS.

Well praise the Lord!

That’s the fallacy of this nonsense. 

Historic injustices do not convey upon Shepard some sort of race-based  prerogative to illogically take things out of context.

No one under the age of eleven deserves that sort of “understanding”.

Do you mean negro , as in The United Negro Gollege Fund? Can we say colored people , as in the NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?

Does your dumb ass even realize you called me a pompous point of sale?! 

LOL – this is just too damn easy!

Out of your daddy’s closet. Got any more stupid questions?

What a bunch of punk-ass bullshit!  (I’m getting some of those translated.  Bizarre.)

Unless you were born in Africa , came to the USA and became an American citizen , you are not an African American. Charlize Theron was born in the country of South Africa, she’s caucasion. Africa is a continent , not a country. The continent of Africa has people  of all races.

Honey, you can try to stuff that empty space behind that pants zipper with all the pencils in the world. It ain’t gonna help. 

It ain’t gonna help.

you calling someone else a racist?  that is very hypocritical of you notsofast.

Tommy watches The View .

I think another conservative hot chick would do nicely.  Michelle Malkin, maybe.  All of a sudden, nobody cares about Whoopi, Joy or Sherri.

Uh huh. Do you tell Jewish Americans that unless they were born in Israel, came to the USA and became an American citizen, they are not a Jewish American? If not, doesn’t that make you an enemy of Israel and a terrorist? How about a damn hypocrite? Or a plain ol’ dumb ass? I’ll take any one of those answers for 200, Alex.

I’m thrilled that you know Africa is a continent. A lot of people, like Palin, didn’t. If only you opened the history book and read it instead of simply stared at it!

WE call ourselves African Americans, idiot, because the institution of slavery disenfranchised our RIGHT to know WHICH country in Africa we came from. 

Now, unless you are an educated individual, came to this forum to postulate intelligent discourse, you can shove any shining hope of trying to educate *me* up that disillusioned fat ass you call a brain.

The usage of both words are intended to be offensive to another group of people…..both are disgusting….Would you agree?

If so, why do Liberals, the ones who are suppose to be sympathetic, keep using it? Wouldn’t they want to condone both if they truly believe in their ideals?

That is why I paint Liberal Hypocrisy with a BIG f…ing broad brush!!!

More resistance to the complexity and nuance of language from our friends on the right.

You want everything to be black or white, man or woman, right or wrong…

I’m sorry the world doesn’t fit your narrow conception of it.

You’ll be held to that.

Oh my bad, well said. 

Blacks are enamored of their own oppression. Don’t encourage them; it’s unheatlhy.

Yeah it took a while for them to post it as it was aired earlier but if interested here is the link…  I would say that the seat to Holder’s office chair just raised a few degrees in temp..

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/03/documents-suggest-holder-knew-about-fast-and-furious-earlier-than-claimed/

Watch for a replacement co-host in the not too distant future.  Barbara is still the boss and Sherri sort of attacked her.  Barbara is a lot tougher (and meaner) then she appears to be on T.V. This won’t be taken lightly by Barbara, especially her remarks about Wops and Jewing someone down.  Just saying…………………

Actually if you really want to be that PC you should say Israeli American, because us really educated people know that there are Christians, Muslims, and maybe a few other religions in Israel.

Lol!!

Ka-Blam!!

I have a very basic question:  Why is it that all other racial epithets are considered fair game except that one? I don’t hear the word “wop” being bleeped out……I don’t hear “jewing someone down” being bleeped out…..If one is offensive, wouldn’t they all be?

What makes one the only protected class?

I’ve been watching the news all day and all I knew was that the rock had some kind of “N- word” on it. It’s nice to know on this liberal web site I was able to find out what that “N-word” was.

So much for the sensativity. One more for Tommy. It was too good to pass up. 

The View. Some of the most primordial throwbacks of human evolution still breathing on the planet. 

Femalicus Americapithecus.

Its because out of all those classes, Blacks were kidnapped from their homeland, millions died in the process, brought to America and families separated, countless raped, molested, tortured, enslaved and murdered…right here on American soil. All the while this word was with us from the begin and after 2 or 3 generations a word like this incites too much to just be said freely, without some type of modicum of sensibility. 

Were your ancestors hung, shot, stabbed (I could go on) will a mob, group of police were chanting those names?

No

All the while, Elizabeth’s thinking “Look down, look down, don’t open your mouth, look down, look down!”

Best statement on here….this one and the the first one about it getting old.  Either it’s wrong or not to say it.  If blacks really were offended by it they’d quit saying it every other word out of their mouths! I lived in NYC for 20 years and whenever you were around a group of black youth or whatever on the subway or in the street it was “n____ this” and “n____” that. STOP USING THE WORD BLACK PEOPLE!!!

This show brings some latest spicy news for public. And it is being appreciated by many people, including me.  But it was my bad luck, i couldn’t see Monday show, but you have done again good job on this site.. Thank you..

http://student.trinhan.edu.vn/member.php?18982-Charla

kids say it all the time to refer to one another

i couldn’t even type the word ‘nig*er’

‘comment awaiting moderation’

you see, i find that disturbing….

let’s see if we can type ‘spick’

let’s see if we can type ‘spick’

a-ha!  i can type ‘spick’?

what’s up with that?

why ‘nig*er* and not ‘spick’?

You are choosing to be ignorant.

It’s truly amazing to witness this level of wilful stupidity. You clearly have little understanding…

Nobody gives a rats ass what Michelle or colorado_conservative or any of
you other teabaggers think about the double standard for using the n
word.  Yes there is a double standard, and NO you can’t use it. It does matter what the color of the person is who says it, whether you like it or not. It doesn’t matter what you think.  Nobody should use the word, but if a black person does use it, that doesn’t give you license to use it as well.

I know teabaggers like Michelle have a burning desire to use the word and figure if they can’t use it nobody should be able to, but that’s not the way it works, deal with it. 

You are a truly intolerant and infinitely gifted idiot.

Teabaggers named themselves teabaggers, it’s not progressives’ fault the original teabaggers didn’t understand the double meaning behind their name.

Holly cow, Elizabeth Hassleback didn’t say one stupid thing. In fact she sounded sensible in this segment

But I still give the award of best contributor to Joy Beyhar

“The use of the word, even when directly quoting, should be reserved for
times when it is essential to convey meaning, and even then, a negative
reaction should still be expected, and understood.”

Unless you’re a rapper.

Would someone from Texas please take a picture of that rock and post it on line.

I suspect that all of the controversy surround it is about words in print and not on the rock.

Al Alaki didn’t “proclaim war” on the U.S.

God you dumb fucks need to stop paying attention to the news being spoon feed you and actually research a subject.

The whole segment seemed like an excuse to say the word as many times as possible.

Didn’t realise being part of the Tea Party was genetic? God, you’re dumb.

“Al Qaeda’s Anwar al-Awlaki Killed in CIA Drone Strike”
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/anwar-al-awlaki-killed-officials-yemen-confirm-al/story?id=14638303

Aren’t we at “War” with Al Qaeda?? Sure he may have not declared it himself, but you’re just nit-picking if you think he wasn’t a target for the United States!! Do you have any information that he wasn’t part of Al Qaeda?? That his affiliation was a mistake or that he wanted to turn himself in?? He deserved to get killed… period!!

Jewish is a religion NOT a nationality. People of all religons live in Israel.
  Plain never said that she didn’t knoe Africa was a continent, that’s a myth carried by the left.
 Most of the black people of Africa were sold into slavery by either their  own BLACK people or by muslims. In fact , today in the Sudan , arab muslims still own black Christian slaves.
 A DNA test can trace your ancestry to a tribe,  the tribe to an area , area to  what is now a country.
 African American is a divisive term . Why are you a hyphenated American? 
 I will not tell you my race,, my religion  or ancestry, but I will say that I am an American.

*PALIN

Were YOU enslaved?   

It’s a non story pushed by the liberal media.

And the answer is,………………………..phoney balony Politcal Correctness.

My ancestors were slaves, my ancestors were systematically murdered  by German and Russian govts.. They were shot, gassed, hung  and raped.   They were caucasion.

Four days ago I was walking down Western with some friends in LA & a male, either Hispanic or Caucasion yelled from his car “niggers”…I was very shocked by the comment as I just moved to LA from VA last Friday. During my time in VA, I was NEVER disrespected that way. I find it sad & I feel that the word shouldn’t be used anyone either black, white, or other…

Not all non-whites are African-American.  African-American refers to the descendant of a slave.  African *no hyphen* American is someone who was born in Africa and came to the US.  Jewish people do not all come from Israel.  Poland, Russia, MANY other nations.  They would be Polish or Nationals or Polish Americans. 

Both institutions have officially changed their names to the initialed acronym now.

I’m a fat person. I represent a large percent of the population in America as a fat person. Fat people are called names all the time. They are discriminated against all the time. We listen to fat jokes in school and when walking the streets all the time. You either let it control your life or you look the other way and move on. Same applies to n word. Right or wrong get over it.

My Irish ancestors were treated badly. My Italian ancestors were treated badly. My Chinese ancestors were treated badly. My Indian ancestors were treated badly. They got beyond it and became citizens without a chip on their shoulders.

Palin wouldn’t know Africa was a continent even if she could see it from her house. Then again,  you could always take your ass over there and point it out on a map. The SAME MAP that includes Israel, a JEWISH republic, and the SAME MAP that includes SPAIN – one of the biggest contractors of the slave trade. 

But you’re an educated fellow, ain’t you?! I can tell by your belief that DNA analysis was available in the 18th and 19th centuries. You’re just so bright! 

(So bright, you’re toxic.)

Unlike the founding fathers, I am not, and never have been nor ever will be, in the habit of RENAMING people who have already named themselves. 

I agree but it still sucks to be harassed :(

If it is so hideous then it is hideous when Lucacris says it or Stone Phillips. It’s just a bunch of whiny special pleading. And of course the black community reserves the right to heap ANY sort of insult at ANY time against ANY person.

The word “slave” comes from the word “slav” as in Pole, Hungarian, Litvak, meaning a whole ethnic grouping, caucasian in this instance, was declared beasts of burden. Gee, imagine that. The history of slavery didn’t start with Roots, numbnuts. And let’s not forget that Yankee traders were middle-men. The Confedracy bought the slaves at retail. Black and arabic african slavers provided them at wholesale.

See, that is a big part of this. The photo itself is embargoed because it is too inflamatory! Stuff is contagious.

I could make a pretty good case that my civil liberties have been trampled, especially lately.

Sharon is nothing but a racist who attacks white people by playing the WHITE GUILT card…and then goes for the RACE CARD
 
saying black lingo NIGGA is acceptable and when a white says NIGGER…it isn’t…
 
…the Barbara is an OLD time “Flak Catcher” and doesn’t take kindly to “Mau Mauing”…from uppity black females…

Etic “my people” Holder has plenty of BLACK RAGE to spread across America…when his black ass goes down….

Having read all of the comments above, all i can do is shake my head. Walthers was quoting cain verbatim, as far as I can tell. It’s her right to do so. Big damn deal. The easiest way for ultra-sensitivity of the blacks to not be an issue is for Blacks to stop using the word.

they argue over silly stuff…sherri shepard has done everything in her life except die……and they argue over who says ‘negro’….this an act to get ratings and start something…babs  and sherri put on a front FOR the viewing public fall for this????if liz had said this, it would be more of a problem….sherri sheppard needs to go away , she is not funny and has no journalist talent…..bob barker please come back so a can go back to watching the price is right….UGH!!!

What they fail to mention is how, after the skull had weathered away so you could no longer tell it wasn’t a white guy’s, the camp owners thought it would be more-prudent to just paint what they had taken to calling the camp on a rock rather than impaling another black guy on top of the pike next to the entrance and starting the decomposition process over.

An argument Sherri SHOULD have made was about the cultural acceptability of Barbara AND Whoopi saying that word on a morning talk show whereas they would never utter the word “c*nt” on air, even as a direct quote.

This diminishes the cultural ‘offensive value’ of the N word.

But Sherri only went after an ethic European for saying it in full on TV which made her look a bit of a bigot.

What is the double standard the fact that WHITE PEOPLE are mad they CANT say the word out loud…..why would any white person care about a word used as a negative against blacks UNLESS their concern is how they can utilize it…..so what if all blacks say the word to each other why would ANY white person care…..they only care cuz they use the word all the time in private and they mad that they cannot say it in public but WE CAN…..

I agree Antonio Michelle is an IDIOT….and truth be told I bet she  uses the word more than anyone…go ahead michele set yourself free…call antonio what you really feel

LMAO Mayhem that is EXACTLY MY POINT….Michelle is mad that she does NOT have the right to use the word OUTLOUD…white people crack me up for real

WHY DO YOU FREAKIN CARE WHITE BOY….the word is NOT meant to offend you….GTFOOH with all that BS….IT is WRONG for WHITE PEOPLE to say it GET IT GOT IT …GOOD…bottom line  and it always will be …

Bottom Line  WHITE PEOPLE will have to continue using the WORD in private …SORRY you CANNOT say it out loud without getting a beat down  so continue doing what you do and keep it amongst your racist selves

First of all, no one was angry or screaming because someone said the “n” word – so you are plain ole ignorant if you can’t understand why someone would dislike the use of a word.  Think about it, you’re a jerk!  The word has bad and negative connotation!  Anyone can be considered a jerk but the “N” word has clarity that comes from the term African American and it also carries the negative connotation with it.  So, I’ll break it down for you – Jerk is a word that can mean anyone (black or white) but the N word strictly comes from a black person which also has a negative connotation behind it.  IF YOU CAN’T FIGURE THAT OUT, NO ONE CAN HELP YOU!  No one should ever use the “N” word – PERIOD!!!  The same way I referred to it as the “N” word is how it should be dealt with “journalism reporting or not”!  It’s simple!  People need to forget about “coulda, woulda and shoulda and simply not use the word at all.

it fn does matter, i been call this word while growing upand istill hate it and will fight any, black especilly whites.

A Sharpton’s like Obama keeps them in their place, DOWN!

Get over yourselves, what a bore. You can’t say this, can’t say that, what do you mean by that, why did you say it like that. Who the hell do they think they are? As the racecard has no meaning anymore,why because they themselves used it for everything they could think of to get the attention for whatever it was they wanted….a better seat, better place in line,something for free,looked at them wrong,attitude all over the place for every thing you can think of. What they got in return is being ignored.

Have to agree, Sherri Shepard came off as igorant and close minded as she just kept repeating, “I don’t know why but I don’t like it when you say it.”  OMG… are you serious?  She’s getting her back up, getting all bent out of shape, and even a touch, dare I say it… ”ghetto” with Barbara Walters enunciation of THAT word, and NOT have any sort of mature, rational answer or reason as to why she felt that way. A self entitled chip on her shoulder… puh leeze!!  Gor read a book Sherri, maybe pay the Sylvan learning centers a visit, work on getting that GED before you decide to start something you can’t finsih, ignoramus.  You are an idiot.  Wear your ignorance on your sleeve too much Sherri and that horrible, racist boss of yours will send you right back to whatever McDonalds it was that you were working in before you were plucked from obscurity by what had to be some high as a kite casting agent who, while in a drug induced haze, thought tht you might have some talent… He no doubt has never worked again…  That display with Barbara Walters exposed how really ignorant you are, I was embarrassed for you… every time Barbara would bring the converstion back to you, I cringed because you sounded dumber and dumber as you went on… you sounded like a 15 year old kid by the end of it… “I just don’t like the way you say it Barbara.”   WTF?  When is her 15 minutes up anyway?