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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (81141)	8/18/2010 12:07:09 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

So what she said was "Black guys use it all the time. Turn on HBO and listen to a black comic, and all you hear is n**r, nr, n**r. I don't get it. If anybody without enough melanin says it, it's a horrible thing. But when black people say it, it's affectionate. It's very confusing." And it gets played as "she said the N word X times", with hints toward "she's a racist". Her statement (at least the one that was quoted, I'm not talking about anything she might have ever said), isn't attacking someone with a racial epithet, its discussing the use of the racial epithet. Just as a discussion of the "7 words you can' say on TV, isn't cursing someone out, its discussing the words, the use of the words, etc. It probably wasn't the wisest thing to do, but I don't see it as a racist action. (In other words it isn't itself racist, and doesn't prove either that she is a racist, or is not one.)