Celebs React To Elisabeth Hasselbeck's N-Word Comments
Jul 21, 2008 AT 01:05 pm
The discussion on The View got heated when Elisabeth Hasselbeck tried to say that neither an African American person nor a Caucasian person should use the n-word in any context. Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd said it was different for them. Now a few more celebrities are weighing in on this heavy topic.
Taye Diggs:
“(Hasselbeck) doesn’t understand, and, no offense — I don’t think any white person has the right to tell a black person or to even weigh in on subject matter such as that,” Diggs told “Access Hollywood” on Thursday. “They don’t know what it’s like to be called that word; they don’t know what it’s like to be black.“They can have an opinion, but… don’t take a word that you created and called me for many, many years, and then me being in my position, have the strength to change what it means in my own culture,” he explained. “Don’t try to take it back now. Now it’s ours. Leave it alone.”
Scrubs star, Donald Faison:
“I don’t think Elisabeth Hasselbeck would ever have to worry being called the ‘N-word’ … For her to be offended by it, it’s kind of weird. African-Americans have used it now as a term of endearment, or how to describe a situation. So for her to say something like that, she has no idea what power it has over anyone.”
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Why does this woman start so many controversies?
Because she's a total attention whore. HOW did this thing START, anyway?!
She stated an opinion! God forbid!! JEez look at fat a$$ whoopi she is a BIT&C on that show to Elizabeth and no one calls her out
Oh, let's attack fat people, now. That's cool, too. And Elizabeth is known for saying some VERY DUMB THINGS, and Whoopi is known for being very sharp-tongued. Are you shocked?
oh so "shes known" for that! she has balls and im glad she said what sha did bc its the damn truth! get all that wax out of your ears so you can listen and be more open minded
Why is Whoopie considered a B****? just because she does not kiss that anorexia looking IGNORANT/INSENSITIVE wish I had a real talent scanks flat a$$.
Oh, yes. Never mind. I just remembered: Jesse freaking Jackson. THANKS, JESSE. Go hop on McCain's bandwagon and shut your piehole.
"This woman" is on a television program called The View, i.e. her views on the subject of the day. She is not trying to start any controversy, she is merely voicing her opinion.
I don't care how many ways they try to explain it... bottom line is no society should have 'words' only a select group is allowed to use. That is discrimination too you know. If a yellow person can use one word but an orange person can't, or a purple person or a green one... get it? Why is one color allowed to use a word but no other? I don't see any other color or people trying to have a word that is all theirs. Get over it. At one point in all our history every color of people has been abused, discriminated against forced into indentured servitude. Yes even WHITES. The Irish were indentured servants as well as several other white skin nationalities. Allowing blacks to have a word that no one else can use is not right or fair.
I completely agree!!!! If a word should not be used it then it should not be used AT ALL! No loopholes, no exceptions. No race or gender or whatever should be above that rule.
Exactly!
I agree... If we keep setting "rules" about what one race can do and the the other can't than how can we all be considered the "same"?
I agree with second comment. This is why we still have division between races. So I have to teach my son that it is OK that his African American friend uses n word and that it is not OK for him to use it because he is white.
I think I am so tired of black people saying to the media or anybody that will listen that it is just so tough for them.......and it's hard being black. Many many years ago I would probably agree w/ that statement but today we as americans have a black presidental canidate leading in the polls. Slavery is no more! People don't have the right bring up slavery happening to them! It didn't happen to them or their parents or their grandparents. in 08 w/ Obama being where he is people just need to understand the whoa is me attitude iis not or should not get you far. Black and white people weren't from the same world but look at the progress over the years!!
You have to remember ending slavery didn't put an end to discrimination. Many people who grew up during the Civil Rights Movement are still alive. However, I do believe buying into this mess only slows down the healing process.
Where do you think Obama is I think he is a scapegoat. The one who will take over after the biggest mistake in america leaves. He will not be abe to fix anything, and he will be a one term president. America is good on giving republicans eight years to f*** up and only four years to fix their mistakes. So again it will be the black mans fault
I actually see where Elizabeth is coming from, and I also see where Whoopi's coming from. But I've heard too many (white) people my own age use the word very flagrantly, so I think its proliferation may be hard to ignore. I automatically bristle when I hear it, just as I loathe hearing people say the F-word -- the one that ends with A-G, that is. There are also a LOT of white kids who listen to N-word happy hardcore rap and hiphop, and they may not understand the power of racial slurs. To them, it's just Nas' album title or something. They don't really get our country's history of lynchings, beatings, riots, etc. It's a dangerous thing, and I honestly don't really feel comfortable discussing it, since I can't relate to a racial struggle. I'm as white as they come, but I've got a few black friends -- ALL of whom have been victims of racism or other general bigoted human stupidity. It's 2008. It just makes me really sad.
I have to agree with number 2 and 3. I don't hear of any other races using impolitically correct words as "terms of endearment."
How does it even make sense to use a word that was once used against them as a term of endearment? I can't see homosexuals calling each other the F word or the G word as a term of endearment in the future. Can someone explain this to me?
Then you obviously don't know any of us. :)
There comes a point in time when you have to say "Enough is enough." I have one white/black child and 2 white/middle eastern children. What am I supposed to tell them? "Ok, now, for you older 2, you're technically white, but not really, because people are still going to discriminate against you because you're "darker" than them, but not really white....so while you're younger brother, who is half black can use the "N" word, you can't...and neither can I, but hey, maybe someday you 2 can turn the racial slurs for your ethnic group into terms of endearment and you'll have those words all for your very own." WTF? Seriously. How MORONIC does that sound?
I'm with Elisabeth all the way!!! Whoopi and Sherri don't know everything like they think they do.
I always thought hell would freeze over the day I agreed with EH. But, ummm, i guess that day is today. Being an AA woman it's really sad that my ppl actually considers a word that was used to tear us down and disgrad us for hundreds of years as a "term of endearment." Endearment for whom. And I agree with the person above. I really don't see gay ppl using the F word as a "term of endearment" in the near future. I really don't know the credentials they use to select the women on the view but they need to re-think it. I'm a little ashamed that it takes a white person (no offense, really) to stand up and speak out about a word that should not be used and then to have two black women turn around and say you are wrong we use this word as a "term of endearment." Are you f****** kidding me. God. Our AA heros died for us to have so much and it's a damn shame we take it all for granted.
Are you all kidding me? First of, black people do not say **** to each other, they say niggah. It's the black people noun. Get over it. It reminds me of "if one person jump off the bridge" scenario. This is the crux of the matter my fellow whites...just like you can't call a jew a kike or an italian guido or any other racist terms, you can't call blacks the N word. Call each other crackers or honky and if you hear someone outside your race use it, GET OFFENDED. All this incessant "why can't we say it" or "if we can't say it, you can't say it" deserves the upmost ridicule. My goodness. Also, gay people call each other the F word all the time or even homo. But if you are not gay, YOU CAN'T SAY IT!!!! So WHITE people....GET OVER YOURSELVES. By the way, I am white and and I can tell you to get over yourselves and stop whining. Jeez.
I have to agree with most of the posters. It is a complete "double standard", oh, I can say this word-but don't you dare let me hear you say it. That is ridiculous and is not going help race relations one bit. Then you know what, I don't want any ethnic group to call me any name other than white---that is all you have permission as how to refer to me. Yes, that is as stupid as it sounds and so are these people. Whopi and Sherri and others are part of the problem not the solution. If it is not alright for one group to say a word then it is not alright for any one to say it, period!!
Honestly I'm tired of different races trying to play the victim against another race. I don't know how it is to be black, but black people don't know how it is to be white and so on and so forth when it comes to different races. So stop trying to play the victim because your black. White people are offended by things black people say, and black people get offended by things white people say, it's a never ending process until people GET OVER THEMSELVES, and stop trying to be so damn self righteous!
Wow, I can't believe how ignorant some of the people on here are!! --"People don't have the right bring up slavery happening to them! It didn't happen to them or their parents or their grandparents." Are you JOKING?! Slavery was the most disgusting thing this country has ever done. While you're at it, why don't you tell Jewish people that they have no right to bring up the Holocaust. And there still is extreme discrimination against black people. Why don't you crawl out from the rock you live under and try living in the real world? It's a pretty narrow-minded, sad, view you hold....
The person was simply saying that salvery did not happen to anyone born in the United Stats now and has not happened for hundresds of years!!!!!! So dont play that card! We are well beyond slavery and now lots of things has changed. You cant blame white people who are living here now in the country for slavery. How can you sit there and try to blame me or Jane Doe for somehting that happened hundreds of years ago???????? Yes it is ashame and digusting that slavery happened, and were not saying to forget about it, but you have to stop blaming the "white" people of today for it! That is NOT FAIR AND THAT IS DISGUSTING TO DO!
Passerby (not verified) said: The person was simply saying that salvery did not happen to anyone born in the United Stats now and has not happened for hundresds of years!!!!!! So dont play that card! We are well beyond slavery and now lots of things has changed. You cant blame white people who are living here now in the country for slavery. How can you sit there and try to blame me or Jane Doe for somehting that happened hundreds of years ago???????? Yes it is ashame and digusting that slavery happened, and were not saying to forget about it, but you have to stop blaming the "white" people of today for it! That is NOT FAIR AND THAT IS DISGUSTING TO DO! YOU ARE AWESOME!!!!!
Actually, people DON'T bring up the holocaust in the way that you're talking about unless them or their families were victims. There aren't any Jews that tell Germans 'I can call myself a ****, but you can't". Even in Armenia, where the Turks did a MASS GENOCIDE, they don't call themselves hateful names and then forbid anyone else from calling them that. No one's saying that blacks or any other race don't face discrimination, because ALL RACES HAVE AT ONE POINT IN TIME. That doesn't give you a pass to act like a victim for the next 100 years. Do something positive with the freedom that you now have instead of complaining all the time about what you face now. Lots of people face discrimination and hate..you either get over it and rise above or you end up in the slums blaming other people for your poverty.
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