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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