Dr. Laura announces end of radio show
She’s a broadcast and publishing legend. She’s battled political correctness for years. Tonight, the incomparable Dr. Laura announced that she’s ending her daily radio talk show — in order to allow her to speak her mind more freely.
More power to her.
Via E News:
The longtime AM radio fixture says that she will pull the plug on The Dr. Laura Program at the end of the year, a week after repeatedly using the N-word while taking a call on the air from a black woman who wanted to discuss her interracial marriage.
The made the announcement during an appearance on Larry King Live.
Here’s her rationale:
“My contract is up for my radio show at the end of the year and I’ve made the decision not to do radio anymore,” Schlessinger told King, who also happens to be on his way out this year (for less incendiary reasons).
“The reason is I want to regain my First Amendment rights. I want to be able to say what’s on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I’m sort of done with that.”
She’s not retiring or quitting, she added, but rather, hopes to be “stronger and freer to say the things that I believe need to be said for people in this country.”
WaPo’s story is here.
Look forward to seeing and hearing more of her.
Go to her site and show your support at DrLaura.com.
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Good for her.
It is sad that Dr. Laura’s radio show is ending.
She helped a lot of people who called in and clearly needed a heaping helping of Dr. Laura’s common sense.
I look forward to hearing what Dr. Laura believes needs to be said in the future.
Amen.
I always enjoyed listening to her show. Looking forward to hearing her unvarnished opinion soon.
I never have been able to stand her show. I want to scream at the losers each of the few times I have listened to it. I’m no great deal myself, but her callers make me feel quite superior, and that should be hard to do, not easy.
I gotta agree, hang. I’d find myself cringing at the dolts she often suffered.
I listened to the phone call she took that precipitated her decision. Forgive me, but I can’t for the life of me imagine why she feels compelled to apologize about it. No language should be off limits in the context in which she was speaking. Double standards continue unabated.
I love and admire this little lady.
She is an observant Jew, and a truth-teller; both are things I admire.
Regardless of what she is saying now, we all know this is another win for PC BS.
Tammy Bruce is doing subscription service for part of her internet broadcasts so she doesn’t have to be PC and subject to others. She speaks her minds freely now about conservative political positions and frequently shouts down the leftist, because she knows their tactics to shut people off. She knows by experience as a lefty but saw the light of the conservative truth. So Laura, “You go girl!”
Unreal. Like no one who rides NYC buses and subways don’t every day hear even grammar school age kids casually shouting out the “N” word (can’t even write it here because it gets filtered out!) in every second sentence. Let’s stop treating it like it’s so damn sacred — unlike some REAL misused sacred words!
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Oh boy, quick to the grocery store while there is still popcorn left.
I agree with you Hang. Her condescension to the losers was too much for me to bear. It reminds me of the way Obama speaks to “we the idiots”.
The double-standards of the politically correct police win again.
Until the hip-hop-gang-banger-rap musicians stop saying the ‘N’ word, everyone should be allowed to, whether they are white, black, or purple.
All I could think of is, “big deal” that she said it. Perhaps folks should get their thongs in a wad over the ‘F’ word as part of the vocabulary we hear daily.
Here’s to Dr. Laura three cheers, she has been a fountain of sound advice for a long time. It is not Dr. Laura who is the keeper of the N-word. It is groups of rich black people who water, nurture and keep alive this ugly word. Why, ….easy money. The N-word should have died, as a word of power, long ago. Like the M-word, like the W-word, like the D-word, Like many other racist call words that died from lack of nurture. But the N-word must be kept so that a few black people can ride in limousines. The shame of it is that so many black people live their lives in a constant state of being offended ……for no good reason.
Listening to her show made you lose some respect for the intelligence of people, or appreciate the desperation they must feel to call someone who’s going to lay into them for obvious stupidity. I mean, “My husband’s a louse, what should I do?” questions are not that elevating. She was absolutely right about the use of the “N” word in black culture, by comics, gangsters, etc. It’s a hateful word, but I think she over-reacted. I think she was going to cancel the show anyway. She wasn’t clear on how she was going to exercise those First Amendment rights, but time will tell.
On one hand, I have to hand it to her: she speaks her mind, tackles controversial topics, and speaks the truth without fear.
On the other hand… she used the “N” word on the public airwaves.
Yes, it’s wrong that the word gets used at all. The rappers, race-hustlers, and general morons who use the “N” word should all be dragged out in the street and beaten with a fire hose. It’s a despicable link to a despicable time.
But the fact that it gets used by morons doesn’t mean I should endeavor to count myself among them. If I did, I’m still scared my mom would sneak up behind me and tan my hide for saying that word.
Having said that, her apology was sufficient for me and it’s a shame that this was the issue that broke her career.
It is ridiculous that saying the ‘N’ word is cause to end a career.
I used the N word and most people I know use it as well.
Actually, I have never met anyone who hasn’t said something or behaved in a way that others would view as racist.
Anyone who says they have never uttered racist language or made decisions or comments based on race, is in my opinion, lying to the nth degree. I am referring to all people of all races.
From my experience, white people from North America are the most accepting and least judgemental on race. Evidence can be found in the high degree of multi-ethnicity that is found here. It is not just a function of a developed economy that engages in international trade.
Also, from my experience, Koreans are the most segmented, exclusive, more race-based people I have met. If you don’t believe me, try marrying into a Korean family as a non Korean – you’re chances aren’t good. I never understood and don’t to this day, why Koreans open convenience, dry cleaning and other business, service mainly white customers and then refuse to allow their kids to integrate racially through marriage. They claim language and cultural concerns, but that is just a cop-out. They want to secure and promote a perceived elitism of their own race by closing their community to outsiders and only helping one another at the expense of other non-Koreans. No one ever calls behaviour like this out, but someone like Dr. Laura says the N word and all hell breaks lose. Same can be said for other ethnic groups, but again, these groups will falsely claim cultural differences as the reasons for their exclusion of others, while at the same time pointing to white racism.
The thing that makes the N world so valuable to blacks is they still have alot of equity left in that word, in that it provides them with the capital they are looking for to gain an advantage in their pursuits. They use victimization as a tool in their repetroir.
Not that I need to at all, but I find myself mentally editing my words whenever I speak to a black person.
I’ve got news for Dr. Laura. Quitting her radio show won’t stop people from criticizing her. Nor will it increase her first amendment rights. The first amendment is for progressives. Conservatives have to toe the line or suffer the barbs of the morons. That’s just the way it is. So, whether she is on the radio, or just speaking her mind as a private citizen, she will still be blasted. Freedom of speech only applies to progressives, freedom of religion only applies to moose slums, freedom to move about the country without having to prove your citizenship only applies to illegals…get the picture? Sorry, Dr. Laura, but quitting your radio show will solve nothing, but will give one more victory to those who want to shut conservative radio down.
I don’t use the “n” word. Never have, to my recollection, certainly not as an adult. I get what she was doing, when making her point about the double-standard. If she had not signed off an hour early for being horrified by her own conduct, it would have boded (bade?) better for her. I don’t understand what happened, but something inside Dr. Laura must have snapped.
I don’t buy her reason for quitting; sorry.
Vicki,
Serious question and I want to preface it by stating that I am not attacking you as a result of your post.
Have you ever said, done or thought anything that was negative about another person or group based on their race?
Please be honest when answering and think for a while about your past behaviour before you answer.
The problem I have with people condeming the ‘N’ word is that there is so much equivalent race based behaviour by all of us, that treating the ‘n’ word being spoken as some unexplainable wrong is disingenuous. I am not saying you are being disingenuous, just saying that I am sure you have at some point in your life, more than once, behaved as Dr. Laura has.
If society calls Dr. Laura out, then we have to call ourselves out as well. When we realize that everyone does it, then pointing the finger and claiming outrage makes no sense.
Unfortunately, Dr Laura does not understand the meaning of the First Amendment.
The FCC has six (or seven words) that are no-no’s, and Nicole . . . oops, the other N-word, is not among them.
The government in the form of the FCC has done nothing beyond limiting the use of a few words by Dr Laura, or anyone who broadcasts over the public airwaves.
Dr Laura can continue to broadcast and express her views. The reality is, she is concerned with the consequences of what is on her mind and in her heart, and how others express thier First Amendment rights to what she saqys.
Say what you want, but know that others will say what they want in response to you. And, don’t whine and complain, or pick up your ball to run home with your tail between your legs, when they do express what is in thier hearts and minds.
now THAT’s an image I won’t get out of mind for awhile. Thanks.
Say what you want, but know that others will say what they want in response to you. And, don’t whine and complain, or pick up your ball to run home with your tail between your legs, when they do express what is in thier hearts and minds.
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That would normally be a good response to Leftists when they whine about being criticized or boycotted (in the case of musicians/actors). I have to say, I think it also applies here. I would rather have had Dr. Laura stay on the radio and stick to her guns. If her point was that there is a double-standard w/regard to the “n-word” (i.e., blacks can use it but others can’t), she should clarify that and let others agree with/believe her or not.
She shouldn’t have gone there.
She never lost any 1st Amendment rights. She’s just suffering the consequences of saying something in a way she should have said differently in this PC climate. I agree with her argument. She just could have made it in a less controversial way. Now quit whining, move on… and go do the right thing.
I read the entire transcript, and I didn’t care for Dr. Laura’s tangential rant about the N-word.
It is not a word I grew up with, and if I ever heard it before the 4th grade, I never picked up on it. Yeah, 4th grade. I heard it at school, and had to ask the kid who said it what it was. I immediately picked up that it was used in a hurtful way — or at least with the intent to be hurtful. Seldom heard it after that, though. One of my cousins used the word as a slang word for Brazil nuts. I went for years without eating them simply because of that association.
As an adult, I cringed when I heard my wife’s WWII veteran grandfather use the epithet, skipped it when I read Tom Sawyer to my children, and just the other day when cracked open my 1914 copy of Uncle Tom’s Cabin to see what originated the term “Uncle Tom”, was taken aback by the word before me in black and white, so to speak. I am still amazed at the prevalence it has in modern US society, especially by the people who would take offense.
It is a word, certainly, but it would be best left to join other English words in obscurity. The N-word has baggage. It carries with it the vitriol and demeaning connotations of the slave era.
It bears the mark of blatant racism, as opposed to even the ‘soft racism’ of “clean” and “articulate”.
Even in her attempted discussion of the prevalent use of the word on HBO (her example) and the apparent double-standard with regard to its stigma, I think Dr. Laura was unwise in actually pronouncing the word. Engaging in an activity you are attempting to denounce is not the right way to denounce it.
She should not have apologized.
…and rides a Harley, and has a son in the Military.
There’s a lot to like in this woman.
I could never figure out why people called into her show. Gluttons for punishment I guess.
When I read Uncle Tom, I was amazed that Uncle Tom was perverted into an insult. He was the most Christian of all the players in the book that, according to Lincoln, “started this danmed war.”
And so, the steep degradation of society gets steeper without some sanity from Dr. Laura to counterbalance.
Yes. And I was wrong. And I don’t have a radio show where I beseech people to “go do the right thing”.
I’m not condemning Dr. Laura. I love Dr. Laura and I have been a long-time listener to her show. What I said is that I don’t buy her reason for quitting. This is not about a first-amendment right. It’s about her judgment.
As I said: I understand the point she was making about the double-standard. I make that point all the time without using the “n” word or anything like it. She could have done likewise.
I don’t think she should lose her show, but the double-standard under which we are oppressed now guides the public outcry. It’s not fair. But it’s not about her first-amendment right to free speech because, if it was, she’d be arguing that saying the “n” word should be OK. It’s not OK, and she doesn’t think it’s OK.
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Old Mexican saying, “Moscas no puedan entrar la boca cerrada!”
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Flies can’t enter a closed mouth! The foul mouthed racist clowns on the left can get away with anything. A good woman like Laura gets no slack cut for her.
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John Bibb
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Like the Internet she is basing her future on is free from PC pressures and out of the reach of the Reichstag.
good for her. I’ve never understood the problem with the ‘n-word’. It is manufactured rage for the media and the industrial racism complex. The ‘n-word’ neither damages or hurts anyone, nor does it take opportunity from anyone. It’s just too bad she had to wait for retirement to take this stance.
I also don’t understand why the gay people are immune to criticism as well. Why can’t I call a gay person an ‘f-word’ without being charged with a ‘hate crime’.
The whole gay community made up the term ‘homophobia’ specifically so they could define the people who they claim victimize them. Seriously, homosexuality was classified as a mental illness (I still believe the behavior indicates mental illness – Is Flight Attendant Slater sane? Or the gay parade flamers must be totally sane, right?). . . but they claim that people who disagree with them are suffering from a mental illness defined as ‘homophobia’.
It’s ironic, but our society doesn’t teach people to think for themselves. They say, “who is hurt if gay people get married?” But the appropriate question is, “how are gay people hurt by not being officially married?”
Gay people actually have more benefits than straights with benefits. Straight unmarried people can’t claim ‘domestic partner’ status like gay people can. Now unmarried gays won’t be able to claim ‘domestic partner’ status either. The institution of marriage was for the children, not the people getting married. Blacks and whites could still have offspring so they had to be allowed to get married.
Without marriage, all men would be like Levi Johnston and just get girls pregnant and leave them. . . after all, the girl isn’t their family. That’s the purpose of marriage. And gay people will never run into that problem no matter how many women who can’t have children are married (straw man argument from gays).
But we can’t have these discussions because of what Dr. Laura is going through. Good luck Dr. Laura.
Rappers, among others, have claimed that their use of the word was intended to “reclaim” it, to “take away its power.”
Has that worked?
I think it’s gone the opposite way; it carries more power than ever, even when harm is not intended in the least.
The good doctor did not call anyone that name, nor did she intent to demean anyone.
Well stated, Mark.
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.
That’s a “vestige of a bygone time”, if I can quote Judge Walker.
We somehow missed that section of the Constitution which guarantees our right to not be offended.
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I like her.
Yeah, I noticed that, too.
She simply screwed up that session. Had she stuck to “relationship & communication therapy”, I don’t this would have occurred. However, I think she played this scenario over & over in her head, it didn’t play out as she thought considering the caller didn’t embrace any connotation of the word. Now, go do the right thing & go get a more lucrative deal. I think Imus may have stumbled upon something for those looking for an an early release.
Thacker #39
and the religious, swearing before God and the community as witnesses to the vows.
You are correct on the homosexual marraige issue. My memory is failing on the much of it, but to my faulty recollection the marraige contract was drawn to seal and protect the projeny/issue of a union the right of inheritance and succession. Failure to uphold your end of the bargain by the Mrs. often spelled doom. Often there was a civil ceremony, spelling out the shalt nots and legal
There was no one better to explain and chastise the failure in choosing inappropriate partners than Dr. Laura. I didn’t listen to her radio show (again, the callers made my teeth hurt) but have read one of her earlier books and thought she expressed great insight.
I am not a big fan of Dr Laura with regards to her superior attitude. I don’t think she is a bad person nor is she racist.
Having said that, I read her supposed rant. I did not see anything wrong with what she said. I spend quite a bit of time in the so called “black community” as my girlfriend is black. Where I go and what I do I many times find myself the only white person there. I see and hear a lot of things I don’t like or agree with, but I don’t make waves for the most part. I choose my battles wisely when it comes to a racial issue. So when I do decide to discuss an issue, ie: disagree, my views are respected because I have credibility.
I don’t buy her statements post “rant.” Something doesn’t seem right with her. She might be having a few mental health issues herself.
If Michelle Malkin applauds Dr. Laura so much, she should go on Fox and use the ‘N’ word “in context” and see what happens to her career.
I could not agree more.
ost people here either seem to not have actually listened to what was said or do not understand the use of perjoratives.
She did not use the word perjoratively. She just pointed out rappers and comedians etc say
‘n*****, n*****, n*****’ all the time.
Anyone who thinks she has anything to apologize for is directly part of the problem with the decay in our society.
Fix yourselves before you go around criticising good people.
I must have missed the posts where people said she used the offensive word as a pejorative.
Others obviously thought she somehow did. So that part did not apply to you. However, the central point was that banning the purely intellectual use of any word is an additional step toward intellectual decay and generally twisted thinking, not a sign of ‘sensitivity.’
So, why is she quitting? Isn’t she merely affirming that which she is protesting? Is she not ceding power to those who seek to take it from her? She hates the fact that other people can tell her what to say and not to say. Her response? Quit, hence confirming what you can and cannot say on radio. This is no different than the way the six Virginia State Trooper chaplains responded to criticisms of them praying in the name of Jesus Christ. My question is this: who has the thinner skin, those who are easily angered by the words of others or those who quit in response to them?
They were attacking her sponsors.
Just as Palin had an obligation to the people of Alaska that required her to ‘quit,’ LS has a responsibility to those who fund her ability to be on her show.
That is why she quit. Now she can say whatever she wants to say, and the barbarians can only come after her.
oooohhhh… she used the N-word! ooohhhhh… the dreaded N-word! ooohhh…bad Dr. Laura..
gimme afreakin’ break.
why on earth do people get so upset over use of this word (so that I cannot even write it here without fear of a banhammer)??
with the exception of course that blacks can use it all the hell they want. I hear it every single day on the streets.
so, I have a quetion then…
How black do you have to be to get a pass on use of the N-word? Barack Black? I guess that would be ok, since as we all know he’s not the first “half black” prez, but the first black prez…
how ’bout 1/4 black? that’s getting pretty light… hmmm better alert the N-word police…
1/8 … oh boy (sorry, did i say boy?)
you better run ‘n hide…
I say we have kow-towed enough to the PC police…
The overall body of her work was a blessing to many. But personally, I found her occasional lack of humility sometimes undercut her message.
And then they will go after the Internet Service Providers…
Give it time.
But on a greater level, I ask this: why are those who disagree with this sort of thing allowing this cultural shift to take root? Why can those on public television swear, fornicate, disrespect all religion, smoke dope, kill people in the most horribly creative ways, etc., yet retain the right to call down a rain of fire on those who say one little word that starts with the letter “N”, ends in “R” and has an “igge” in the middle? Those with glasses don’t like to be called “four-eyes”. Those with Irish decent don’t particular care for the term “paddywagon”. Those with big front teeth don’t care to be called “bucktooth”. So I ask, why have traditional Americans ceded the keys to our culture to those who wish to destroy it? Newsflash: Popular Culture is American Culture. But it doesn’t have to be. It will be though if people keep on quitting in the face of adversity. And here I thought Americans were made of sterner stuff. But then again, if they were, I wouldn’t be fighting a war with a bunch of women to my left and right when there are a so many men (so called) are sitting it out back home. But I digress…
On August 18th, 2010 at 4:10 pm, Send_Me said:
Oh Send Me, you are so insensitive…
Don’t you realize that the N-word reminds all of those former slaves of the cruel sting of their master’s whip.. Why some of them are still bleeding from the terrible horrific wounds inflicted…
oh, wait, no, that was 150 year ago…never mind…
What ever happened to ‘sticks n stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me’? Guess that was only a white thing to say?
The first time I heard about her, I went on her website and there was a link about “Communist Goals for the United States”. Why it was there I do no know, but I am glad it was. It’s a real eye-opener…all coming true.
The “n” word is pejorative.
It is an ugly word and has no place in civil society.
My grandfather, who was raised in the South, used it. It was not always meant by him to derogate black people, but it was always used to identify the person as black, which he felt was necessary. It wasn’t.
In my opinion, to excuse using the “n” word when it’s supposedly “non-derogatory” is like excusing the use of the “f” word to describe love-making.
I don’t buy that either.
Then you have not listened to the way LS used the word, or you do not understand I was not saying it was bad only when the speaker intended to use it perjoratively.
LS was not using the word to identify anyone at all. She was saying we were constantly hearing the word being used by rappers and comedians, etc.
Again, if you do not understand the difference, you are part of the problem.
I’m not sure how others feel about this subject, but I want to go on the record…right here, right now…and officially forbid any white person from using the N****R word from now on, but I am giving carte blanche to all black people to go right ahead and shout it out to their hearts’ content.
I’ll be back shortly to dictate which words white people can use and black people cannot.
If anyone (white or black) has a problem with this, I will then invent and construct a Suessical-like contraption that can make white people black, and black people white anytime they want to change sides.
All I ask for is a $5 admission fee for the use of my machine…well, that and world peace.
I was talking about my grandfather. What did you do: read every third word??
Geesh.
My point was your grandfather’s manner of use of the word had nothing to do with the use of the word by LS.
If it was not your intent to relate the two, then I can see how you wouldn’t understand my reply.
Give all those n’s the p and tell them to get the f out of here. No one likes mf’s that are not bff’s. Its all a bunch of bs’s made up by a bunch of c’s who have no b’s. Lol those sobs should be done ASAP IMHO.
Where are all these racist haters anyway? Chicago? Atlanta? Al Shartons house? I don’t see them around here.
Really, even though I like Dr. Laura, her show needed to end a long time ago.
Her answers are so predictable that after you have listened to her for 2 weeks you know what she is going to say.
They’ll go after Rush next, as they went after Dr. Laura ,and I agree with several other posters: some of the people who called her show were…for lack of a better term…just plain stupid. The sad thing is that these hypersensitive groups are the ones who are quashing dissent are doing the USA a great disservice. Yes, dissent when there is a conservative in the White House, but once a raging liberal gets in, all dissent is now and forever to be silenced. God help us all!
If they can force out a titan like Dr. Laura, be sure they will start gunning after Rush and Hannity, as well as the entirety of FOX News…
You are wrong! Simply wrong! If you cannot see the difference in what your grandfather may have done and how Dr. Laura used the term in her discussion you need to look again. Dr. Laura should be paying NO price for what she did.
And what better way to do that than to stop getting all bent out of shape whenever it is used? It only has the power you give it…..and from your post, you give it quite a bit. As long as people like you overreact to its use, it will continue to be with us.
In junior high schools (at least in NYC), it’s common usage in class, cafeterias, and schoolyard for boys to openly call girls “holes” now. Personally, I find this total disregard/belittlement of girls FAR more repulsive and dismaying than them slinging the “N” word around. Imagine a man, much less a schoolboy using this term for a female in the ’60s! We scratch our heads at why do boys end up treating girls and later women so shabbily and like toys and trash (and end up crashing families), yet the reason is not just staring us in the face, we are SHRUGGING it off. Coarse culture spawns coarse citizens, so we truly get what we don’t condone.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Words have no power unless it is given to them. The “N” word is a term of endearment when used by one group yet it is the worst racist insult imaginable when used by any other. By allowing a few very vocal criminal thugs to claim it is a racist insult, we have given it power, yet no one complains about the words “Whitey” or “Cracker”. For some people, it doesn’t matter what label you use they are insulted, and for a few, some one of another skin color even talking to them is considered an insult. It’s not about race, it is about attitudes, power and money. How the few “Reverends” can change and abuse the attitudes of one group to gain power and money from everyone else. Pretty disgusting when they claim to be “men of God” and they are just greedy race baiting crooks and hustlers.
And non-profit tax shelters as well. That may be the worst insult of all, an insult to the whole country.
After listening to what was actually said, I can’t find anything wrong with what she said. Things like a word on their own cannot be racist, only actions like calling someone the “N” word can be racist. If we keep this up, no one will be able to say any word, because all words can insult someone if they allow themselves to be insulted by it.
Agreed wildact, except for the n-word thing which was the point of the article.
I understand what you gentlemen are saying about giving the word power; but I must, apparently, point out that the power that word has long predates any of us.
The word is demeaning. Even when used in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” or “Tom Sawyer”, where the word is used in a casual, matter-of-fact kind of way, it carries the connotation that people of color, Black people in particular, are less than human.
That there are Black people who demean themselves and their peers with that word is irrelevant. The word should essentially die from lack of use, like the words “mulatto”, “quadroon”, “mustee”, and so forth. All of these words have the base reference of “racial purity”, if you will, with regard to White & Black.
Those words once had power, but from disuse their power has gone. Same should go for the N-word.
But the N-word doesn’t have power because I react to it. I react to it because it still has power enough to make me react. “Whitey” and “cracker” are not reacted to because they have no power. “Whitey” was never oppressed due to the lack of melanin. Neither was “cracker”. There is no real power in those words. For words to have power there must be some associated truth an d history to them. Negative history to make the word sting. There is truth in “Whitey”, but no negative history to being White. There is negative history in “cracker”, but no truth.
The N-word holds negative truth and history in the basis that people were treated as less than human due to their skin color. The word still has power.
The word with power over White people is “racist”.
This is fascinating: apparently historians just discovered an obscure clause in the 1st amendment that guarantees every American citizen the right to their own call-in radio show, and the right to cuss out callers they disagree with, and anybody who objects can suck it. I start my show next week. Can’t wait!
Michelle,
God bless you for accurately describing this as a battle against politcal correctness, not a battle for 1st Amendment Rights. Dr. Laura’s rights were not infringed upon any more than the Dixie Chick’s were a few years ago (by which, of course, I mean they were not).
This is one of the things I admire about you–you don’t spin the truth depending on who it involves.