"Yesterday, I did the wrong thing," she said. "I didn't intend to hurt people, but I did. When I was a kid, the N-word was appropriate to say in polite company. That's the way my family spoke. I mean, I heard a teacher read "Huckleberry Finn" aloud once; I thought it was a transcript of my mother talking about our housekeeper.
"But, because some darky got her little feelings hurt, that makes it the wrong thing to have done. I was attempting to make a philosophical point -you know, the philosophy of 'I'm white, and the coloreds are beneath me', and I articulated the "n" word all the way out - more than one time. In fact, if I said it any more times, it would've sounded like a G-Unit CD.
See, I truly believe that if we take back that word, and use it as God had intended --Which is belittling African-Americans so they remember their place-- we'd all be better off.
And that was wrong. I'll say it again - that was wrong. In fact, I will say that I am wrong at the bottom of each hour of my show, The Dr. Laura Schlessinger Show, so please listen."
"Please? They... They're going to foreclose on my house. Please listen?"
Below is a transcript of the N-word call:
DR. LAURA: Black guys use it all the time. Turn on HBO and listen to a black comic, and all you hear is n---er, n---er, n---er. 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.
CALLER: Are you serious? Who are you to say that to...
DR. LAURA: Shut up, n---er. See? *laughs* That means I like you! N---er.
CALLER: Who speaks like that?
DR. LAURA: Oh, then I guess you don't watch HBO or listen to any black comedians, Look, jungle bunny, the point I am trying to make...we've got Afroman as president and we've got more complaining about racism than ever. I think that's hilarious."
Schlessinger and the caller then got into an exchange about the use of the word:
CALLER: Is it OK to say that word? Is it ever OK to say that word?
DR. LAURA: It depends how it's said. You n---ers talking to each other seem to think it's ok.
CALLER: But you're not black, they're not black, my husband is white.
DR. LAURA: Race-traitor says what?
CALLER: What?
DR. LAURA: Oh, I see, so a word is restricted to race. Got it. Can't do much about that. Golliwogg.
CALLER: I can't believe someone like you is on the radio spewing out the n***** word, and I hope everybody heard it.
DR. LAURA: I didn't spew out the n---er word!
CALLER: You said "n---er, n---er, n---er" and I hope everybody heard it.
DR. LAURA: Yes they did, and I'll say it again: n---er, n---er, n---er is what you hear on HBO.
DR. LAURA: "What should I call you? Negro?"
CALLER: "And I'll call you Whitey."
DR. LAURA: "Tar baby."
CALLER: "What did you say?"
DR. LAURA: "Tar baby."
CALLER: "Ofay."
DR. LAURA: "Colored."
CALLER: "Redneck."
DR. LAURA: "Jungle bunny."
CALLER: "Peckerwood."
DR. LAURA: "Burr-head."
CALLER: "Cracker."
DR. LAURA: "Spear-chucker."
CALLER: "White trash."
DR. LAURA: "Jungle bunny."
CALLER: "Honkey."
DR. LAURA: "Spade."
CALLER: "Honkey-honkey."
DR. LAURA: "N---er!"
CALLER: "Dead honkey!"
DR. LAURA: Why don't you let me finish a sentence? Don't take things out of context. Don't NAACP me, leave them in context.
"If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry outside of your race, lawn jockey." Schlessinger said after hanging up with the caller.
She set forth her mea culpas the next day, opening her show with an apology.
"I'm very sorry you Nig-nogs got your afro-hair-filled panties in a bunch. I am very sorry. And it just won't happen again. Mau-Mau-- Sorry, sorry. It's so hard to change. I'm sorry."
Did you know:
Dr. Laura is full of sh-t? Her Ph.D. in in physiology, not psychology. In fact, her doctoral thesis was on the "Effects of Insulin on 3-0-Methylglucose Transport in Isolated Rat Adipocytes," which makes her perfectly qualified to talk about diabetic mice, and nothing else.
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