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Black folks! Honest question.
Is the use of the N word here a problem? See the video in the link, of which itself all but spells out the entire N word.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/22/cnn-reporter-uses-word-ngger-on-live-tv-video/
On ?CNN Newsroom? Thursday afternoon, Drew Griffin of CNN?s special investigations unit used a racial slur while explaining phone call evidence from a recent case where the federal government charged three Mississippi men with a hate crime for running over a black man with a truck after severely beating him.Griffin also compared the case to a shooting in Florida, where an unarmed black teenager was killed by a neighborhood watch leader.?At the end of this, Deryl Dedmon is laughing with his friends and actually called on a cell phone and, pardon my language but there?s no other way to say this ? ?I just ran over that f?ing ***,? that?s what he said. And it was a clear-cut case of pure racial-intent murder that took place there, which is why it was so easy to apply the hate crime legislation in this case,? Griffin said. ?There was no question about it, unlike the circumstances involving the case in Florida.?Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/22/cnn-reporter-uses-word-ngger-on-live-tv-video/#ixzz1pu6mXbZ1
Re: Black folks! Honest question.
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This thought process makes absolutely no sense to me. Is it like a boogie man that if you don't say it often enough it will eat your face in your sleep?
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Oh, jeebers, Dylanite. Where the heck did you get that sig pic? Freaking hilarious.
I think the fact that it was used in context (and apologetically so) is fundamentally proper, and necessary.
I totally understand where the PP is coming from re: "giving the word too much power." For Heaven's sake, the anchor is quoting someone. He's using the words to make the point and impression that needs to be made. He's not using the words himself, or calling anyone an offensive, derogatory term. He's quoting someone else, so that others will feel the same level of righteous indignation that he feels, with regard to the words, their use and the type of person who would say them. He feels awkward, obviously, but dancing around the words because "people would be offended" only leads to diminishing the level of disgust that should be felt in this particular situation. No dancing around the offensiveness of very offensive individuals.
disclaimer: I'm not black.
I think the use of the word in context makes sense and is ok. He's quoting someone.
For some reason this story is harkening me back Mark Twain using racial slurs in his book. They had context, he used them to help illustrate the story and give meaning to it. I see this in kind of the same way.
Agreed.
Glad I'm not the only one who had a HP analogy come to mind.
Also not black, but I agree with the context argument.