Whoopi Goldberg Joins Chorus of People Defending the ‘N-Word’ By Saying it Herself
- Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:20pm by
Mytheos Holt
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It’s a scene straight out of bizarro world – one of the most notable, and most liberal black comedians on TV defending news anchors who’ve used one of the most universally reviled racial slurs in history, eventually using it herself, while conservatives recoil. Yet that‘s exactly what happened on today’s episode of The View, where Whoopi Goldberg went out of her way to not only defend the word, but say it on national TV. Ironically, she was bleeped while doing so. Newsbusters has more:
After some give and take mostly with co-host Barbara Walters who expressed discomfort with the idea, Goldberg said, “What reporters do is they report the news. And every time you make it ‘the N-word,’ it’s cute.”
She continued, “But I feel very strongly about the word. Do not eliminate it. It’s part of our history. Every time people try to sort of make it sound better or more acceptable, let’s call it what it is.”[...]
Ironically, part of Goldberg’s response was bleeped, but from what I can tell by trying to read her lips in the video, I believe she said, “Yes I call it what it is. I say n—ger, they bleep me.”
Watch the exchange here:
This isn’t the first time Goldberg has defended usage of the slur. Back in 2008, she had feuded with conservative View co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck over whether the word means something different when used by black people than it does when used by white people. According to Goldberg, blacks use it as a term of endearment, making its usage more positive in that context.
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dont_tax_me_bro
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:13pmWhoopie = UBERHYPOCRITE!
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:11pmOf course, Whoopi wants to keep the word! And the limited use of it! It’s like civil rights, and slavery.
Report Post »It has a racial connotation and only blacks understand.
The blacks “OWN” it. Nobody else can use it , for they are not worthy!
SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:29pmI guess if the world wasn’t convinced it came out of zimmermans mouth then I guess enough black celebrities and politicians will just keep having to use ****** to inflame the black American community.
The race pimps reign of terror on all Americans is coming to a close. No more cadillacs or demand for your gay assistant to rub on your thigh cream. Then call him a little ****** for not wanting to caress your inner thighs because your as old as dirt.
Selective outrage rocks! I noticed the gay rights groups didn’t stand up for that poor little dude who actually had a moral compass.
Isn’t it cool to be able to use derogatory terms about people, just like the rappers do? Or the justice brothers do? Or whoopi? If I knew I would be this free I would have joined the communist movement a long time ago!
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:41pmCan we remove like from the English language?
How bout ” know wham sayin?”
Crunk? For sheezie? Let’s start with the obvious words please. Leave the words that were in the original dictionary. We landed on the moon, we can figure this out.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 12:25amWhoopi Goldberg is not a good person. She’s spiteful and reactionary on her best days. She’s a raging hypocrite the rest of the time.
I guess she has a following, but I can’t imagine why. Who’d date or marry a woman who watches The View?
Report Post »OhSnappage
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 1:57amI do believe Whoopie was recorded on “the view” like 3 years ago saying the N-word was theirs (Blacks) and only they (Blacks) can use it. She seemed mighty possessive and sure of herself at the time. Lecturing Hasselback at the time, that a white male teacher had no right to use the n-word. Even tho all the students were using it in a buddy fashion.
The woman is a hypocrite and just another typical bigot.
Report Post »disgustedAmerican
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 3:46amYet, it is okay for them to call the white people “crackers”… How is that right?!? It is not. Logically, this is truth… Words are nothing but a combination of letters to create a response. Some will like them, and some will not. hat is life. What one holds as relevant, one holds as offensive. Political correctness is a falsehood of an inward hate of one’s own worth. The only true given right, is the right of free will. How you use it, is how it is perceived. People need to stop playing the victim and start being accountable for their words and actions.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 8:56amWhen my 90 year old mother was a kid her Grandfather had an old 90 year old slave that lived on his place in retirement – his name was ****** Joe! If you asked him what his name was, he told you his name was ****** Joe. When slaves were set free he was happy to stay at my GG Grandfathers place. My mother and uncles sometimes would ask to spend the night down at ****** Joes and party. He was like a school teacher and told of living thru the Civil War and of my GGG Grandather hiding out the slaves of which many stayed after being freed.
Report Post »amagaux
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 9:55amThis is one of my pet peeves. A couple decades ago the science of anthropology categorized the human population using taxonomy terms such as Caucasian, *****, etc. At the time these were scientific terms never intended to draw any social implications. Apparently because the word ***** started with the same letter, N, as the word ******, it became “outlawed” by our culture. The bottom line is that a science, anthropology, allowed its self to change its rules because of social pressure. Apparently, presently, anthropology no longer draws any distinction in its taxonomy among the several races because of social pressure. I don’t even want to get into my argument against describing blacks as African-Americans. Geese….
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:09pmI submit that the word “Sheriff” be used as a substitution.
Mel Brooks was a genius.
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:38pmOh, lo’dy, lo’d, he‘s desp’it! Do what he sayyyy, do what he sayyyy!
A genius indeed
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 2:28amLOL…..see, we Do think alike.
Gosh, I love that movie.
“Isn’t anybody gonna help that poor man?” Hush Harriet, that’s a sure way to get him killed.”
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upvZdVK913I
barber2
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:08pmWhy do so many black comedians , rap musicians, and entertainers insist on using foul language ? What does it prove ? Maybe it is just a verbalization of the anger and hate they feel. I can understand the anger of those who were forced to live under segregation, but after 60 years of Affirmative Action and change, why today ? Why the need to offend common decency ? Oprah Winfrey never felt the need and she was a great uniter. Guess she lacked the hate and anger we are seeing so much of today.
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:15pmIt is not foul to them, it’s how they express themselves. They lack the vocabulary to converse in a normal tone. If you have the words you will use them.
Report Post »dont_tax_me_bro
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:15pm***** is spanish for black. Its not offensive. Its just a word used in another language. But the blacks turned it into a taboo word. Just like they are trying to turn the word “black” into one.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:16pmTry this! It’s a cultural thing. YOU wouldn’t understand. those words are part of the fabric of the culture. The use of that vocabulary allows the undereducated, or mentally challenged to communicate effectively in their enviornment! It also, by the mere coarsmess draws a distinction of irresponsibility!
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:25pm@Mateytwo Barreett
Report Post »See theres my point, you basically said the same thing as I did, but you used better words.
See, if you have the words you will use them…..unless you are projecting attitude.
Jaycen
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 12:26amBarber2, I think it‘s because it’s agressive and “in your face”. It makes a very weak person feel strong.
Report Post »possom
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:02pmHow about snowball until they figure out a proper term.
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:16pmExcellent. Rock on whoopsi doodle.
Hey refresh my memory fine folks of the Blaze. Who was the ******* speaking civilized young black American from the center for American progress who said all it takes to whip the black American commune(ity) into a frenzy is to say that another black American was discriminated against due to the color of their skin? I really can’t remember. Maybe one of our fine progressive soros paid occupiers can remind me.
Occupier challenge- first blaze occupier (w/o an STD) not disqualified by previous mention of said STD, to name that fine young black American, gains an….. Emoticons….. Of credibility. Of course it’s the sad frowny emoticons, but it’s a start.
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:33pmAwesome. That bleeped out word was what you call a saltine. Starts with a c and is a word I call my friends. I’m white. I don’t mind being call the c- word. But I’m glad it has been censored. Wouldn‘t want to offend my C’s.
Report Post »ThankBabyJesus
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:02pmI don’t believe in the n word. There is no point other than discourtesy.
Report Post »TruthisHealthy
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:06pmIt’s a word. Do you like being called ‘*******’? Isn’t that the same? I‘m tired of the ’poor me’ mentality. Grow up.
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:22pmThe word exist, has existed for hundreds of years, you don’ thave to “believe in it” it is there. So are other tems, like whitey. You do know that whitey is not a term of indearment don’t you.
Report Post »Crraccker is another. It is just a word………but the attitude behind the word may get your asss shot.
cdcats8
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:00pmWhat a wack-o world we live in these days.
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 11:38pmA Nword is not a Nword until they play the race card then they are fair game for the Nword.
Report Post »normbal
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:57pm“Are there any ******* here tonight? Could you turn on the house lights, please, and could the waiters and waitresses just stop serving, just for a second? And turn off this spot. Now what did he say? “Are there any ******* here tonight?” I know there’s one ******, because I see him back there working. Let’s see, there’s two *******. And between those two ******* sits a ****. And there’s another ****— that’s two kikes and three *******. And there’s a spic. Right? Hmm? There’s another spic. Ooh, there’s a ***; there’s a polack; and, oh, a couple of greaseballs. And there’s three lace-curtain Irish micks. And there’s one, hip, thick, hunky, funky, boogie. Boogie boogie. Mm-hmm. I got three kikes here, do I hear five kikes? I got five kikes, do I hear six spics, I got six spics, do I hear seven *******? I got seven *******. Sold American. I pass with seven *******, six spics, five micks, four kikes, three guineas, and one ***. Well, I was just trying to make a point, and that is that it’s the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness. Dig: if President Kennedy would just go on television, and say, “I would like to introduce you to all the ******* in my cabinet,” and if he’d just say “****** ****** ****** niggerr” to every ****** he saw, “boogie boogie boogie boogie,” “****** ****** ****** ******” ‘til ****** didn’t mean didn’t mean anything anymore, then you could never make some six-yea
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:54pmPolitical correctness is only used to keep others in check. I dont use the word because not everyone is in the political arena and could be offended. But If I see Whoopi…I have the freedom to let it rip and call her any name i want. I kinda like being called a cracjker anyway…
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:28pmwhoopi offends me by her nasty appearance and general foulness. as a woman myself just the sound of her voice or rosie or joy behar make me embarrassed for all women. I wish someone would get all of them off of tv they are disgusting pigs
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:28pmI understand the attitude.
Report Post »I perfer “Super *******”
macpappy
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:32pmSorry, forgot the moderator software
Report Post »“Super Crrracker” is what I meant to say.
Git-R-Done
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:54pmYet I’ll bet Whoopi Goldberg would be the first person to jump on a conservative who said the n-word.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:11pm…It’s in me to fight. It’s in me to raise up soldiers. It’s in me that every time my feet touch the ground the state of Florida- these crackers- they scared.
“I‘m kinda pissed off right now that the state of Florida ain’t on fire. This could not have happened in L.A. because them brothers up there are not scared to riot. This could not have happened in St. Petersburg Florida, where the black man over there are ain’t scared to kill a *******.”
Kweli: “This is real. We’re attacked anywhere in the world and we would defend ourselves by any means necessary…You starve capitalism, since this racism that‘s being perpetuated and this brutality that’s being perpetuated, and this murder that’s being perpetuated, is built on the table legs of capitalism, you’ve got to starve capitalism.
Carmichael quit the old Black Panthers because they weren’t radical enough, or supportive of separatism enough for his tastes. It‘s a shame he didn’t live long enough (he died in 1998) to see the new incarnation of his hate group achieve the zenith of bigotry and racism.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/04/new_black_panthers_booted_suited_and_armed_for_coming_race_war.html#ixzz1rgq271s6
Report Post »Wakeup Maggie
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:47pmBlack use the word all the time…so, I don’t really get what the big deal is.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:02pmThe Nags , every time I flip through the channels there they r talking all @ once, good night 2 much estrogen on that program, geezz.
Report Post »lassiegirldawn
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:44pmSlang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive . a person of any race or origin regarded as contemptible, inferior, ignorant, etc. Notice the any race in the defination.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:42pm“Back in 2008, she had feuded with conservative View co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck over whether the word means something different when used by black people than it does when used by white people.”
Report Post »~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In other words, the prohibited use of the N-word by white people is a discriminatory factor used by black people? That sounds pretty racist to me.
TSUNAMI-22
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:44pmThe N-word is about attitude, NOT color. Whoopi proves it once again.
Report Post »lassiegirldawn
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:42pmI just posted the defination from Websters Dictionary and it seems the blaze wants to block it.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:51pmIt’s posted further down.
Report Post »OlefromMN
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:38pmWho is this helping? I say nobody.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:38pmWhoopie likes to be a law unto herself-if she does it, it’s ok. Twit.
Report Post »lassiegirldawn
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:37pmWebster Dictionary
Report Post »Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive . a person of ANY RACE or origin regarded as contemptible, inferior, ignorant, etc.
Restored One
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 11:29pmSo the trolls who post here fit that description.
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:37pmWho really cares what those dopes call each other?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 7:50amWho really cares what happens on The View? You would have to completely zonked on antipsychotic drugs to sit through that drivel.
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:36pmThey use it as a term of endearment….ok, ask the hundreds lynched and tortured if they saw it a term of endearment…words have history, power and meaning and changing the definition of it does ‘their’ history no service…blacks are quick to throw out the ‘race card’ and ‘slavery speech’, but then they do their ancestors a disservice by uttering the word…they can call themselves anything they want if they choose to, but trying to make the word ‘cool’ or ‘empowering’ is just foolish and uneducated…sad really…
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:32pmFunny I saw a photo of a woman at a Trayvon Rally wearing a shirt that said *******.
Are the ratings down on the screw views? Whoopseed is a racist. Now what color is she?
Oh yeah calling Don Lemon a “reporter” is about as funny as calling Joyless Beehar relevant.
The useful racist idiots are coming out of the woodwork.
OMG 2012
Report Post »Donald
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:32pmcan’t make this one up…couldn’t even imagine it.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:32pmYou ever see 2 blacks arguing with each other? It’s NOT a term of endearment then. Barbara should have said “so I can say ****** too?”
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:31pmWoopie is just a smidge on the racist side if she believes she has a right to say certain words and because i’m white i can not.I would like to know one word that black people are banned from saying. Do i hear crickets?
Report Post »Max jones
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:08pmyeah, you can’t say the name of the guy who shot the white guy….you can’t tell the cops where you got the gun……how about“ Herman Caine sure is smart”…… “ tax cuts might work”……..“Obama is a fool”…….
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 9:58pm@ Max lol, ok you got me………..
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:26pmThat’s the whole deal, folks. It’s “okay” if “they” say it. If a White person or a Latino or an Asian says it, Katy, bar the door!
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:53pmThe funny things is she nicknames herself after a $3 cushion that recreates the sound of sh*t…
Report Post »RayOne
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:21pmDiscussing her body functions does not get laughs, anymore.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:47pmwhere is the free speach 4 whitey
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