{"id":22449,"date":"2010-08-15T05:59:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T13:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22449"},"modified":"2010-08-15T06:02:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T14:02:32","slug":"i-dont-see-anything-wrong-with-dr-lauras-use-of-the-n-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22449","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t See Anything Wrong With Dr. Laura&#8217;s Use Of The N-Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She wasn&#8217;t putting anyone down. She was making the point that the word is ubiquitous among many black people, particularly black comics on HBO.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think she should&#8217;ve apologized.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/08\/12\/dr-lauras-n-word-rant-rad_n_680680.html\">Dr. Laura said<\/a>:    CALLER: Is it OK to say that word? Is it ever OK to say that word?    DR. LAURA: It depends how it\u2019s said. Black guys talking to each other seem to think it\u2019s ok.    CALLER: But you\u2019re not black, they\u2019re not black, my husband is white.    DR. LAURA: Oh, I see, so a word is restricted to race. Got it. Can\u2019t do much about that.    CALLER: I can\u2019t believe someone like you is on the radio spewing out the n***** word, and I hope everybody heard it.    DR. LAURA: I didn\u2019t spew out the n***** word!    CALLER: You said \u201cn*****, n*****, n*****\u201d and I hope everybody heard it.    DR. LAURA: Yes they did, and I\u2019ll say it again: n*****, n*****, n***** is what you hear on HBO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She wasn&#8217;t putting anyone down. She was making the point that the word is ubiquitous among many black people, particularly black comics on HBO. I don&#8217;t think she should&#8217;ve apologized. Dr. Laura said: CALLER: Is it OK to say that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22449\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,23273],"tags":[23277,23275,23276,23274],"class_list":["post-22449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks","category-laura-schlessinger","tag-comics","tag-dr-laura","tag-hbo","tag-n-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22451,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22449\/revisions\/22451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}