The only episode of Boston Public I ever saw, was Chapter 37, which dealt with the “N”-word. Couldn’t find a single clip on YouTube, but that episode should have made me a regular watcher (it didn’t, although Jeri Ryan is certainly eye-catching). It really was a good episode.
I’d offer my thoughts, but right now I’m just too exhausted; still wanted to blog the following segments from The View, though:
Hat tip/also blogging: Freedom Eden
By the way, this isn’t the first time The View covered the topic of the N-word:
Interesting to listen to how they talked about the topic back then (aired Feb 22, 2008). The gaggle of voices at the end is just frakkin’ annoying. But, hey…what could I expect? It’s The View!
I remember an episode of “Mind of Mencia” where Carlos actually goes to the streets and asks the very same thing to other people, black and white. And the black man says the same thing Whoopi did in that video: that it’s okay for a black man to call another black man the “n” word but it’s racist when it’s said by a white man. Too bad I can’t find it…we can use a few more laughs here.
What about when Quentin Tarantino uses it? Patti Smith? The double standard isn’t just restricted to race.
For some reason, this came to mind while listening to pundits on tv talk about who can and who cannot use “the N-word”: