The View ‘N’ Word Video
“View” co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck erupted into tears Thursday after a heated discussion about the use of the n-word, in which fellow co-host Whoopi Goldberg told her the two “don’t live in the same world.”
“It’s something that means something way different to me than it does to you,” said Shepard. “I can use it as a term of endearment.”
Shepard also said to co-host Barbara Walters: “I don’t want to hear it come out of your mouth.”
Hasselbeck contested that “We [blacks and whites] don’t live in different worlds, we live in the same world.”
Goldberg, who used the n-word repeatedly during the broadcast (it was bleeped out), said that “We don’t live in the same world. What I need you to understand is the frustration that goes along with when you say we live in the same world. It isn’t balanced.”
Hasslebeck tearfully replied that “when we live in a world where pop culture then uses that term, and we’re trying to get to a place where we feel like we’re in the same place, where we feel like we’re in the same world … how are we supposed to then move forward if we keep using terms that bring back that pain?”
Click here to watch the video segment of the discussion the ladies had.
Also, click here for more video on the ‘N’ Word.
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Yes, we live in different worlds and the n-word is a word blacks can use or if you grew up black, you can use it, cause you understand how to use it. If you didn’t grow up black you don’t understand the meaning of it so you can’t use it. If your white your ancestors committed some of the worst events in American history thats why whites that can’t use it. I have never heard a white person apologize for the fact that they have benefited from being born white and privileged, because their ancestors raped, murdered, and enslaved a nation of humans because of the color of their skin. So, crying cause you can’t say the n-word is rediculous, She can’t use the word cause she is white. To explain to her kids why they can’t use the word is simple. All she has todo before she explains the n-word, is to explain slavery and the jim crows laws. It will make the n-word easy to explain.
Why is it OK for black comics to use the n-word, and my client, a comedian, who is doing a show, “feminazi” (the n-word for women) is getting stonewalled? She is doing it for exactly the same reason as Whoopi stated: “this word has followed us around and [she] took it out of the hands of those who used it and put it into [her] hands.”
Sounds like a double-standard to me…