Dr. Laura’s down with the homeys moment!
If I remember correctly, the first rule as a doctor is to do no harm.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger; renowned conservative radio talk show host educator author educated America this week by informing them that the election of President Barack Obama meant that all White Americans had the right to now use the ‘N’-word as part of their daily vocabulary. She then proceeded to do so 11 times in a row over the national airwaves here known as Radio. Again, I am going to point to the perception by most of the lay public that a person with the title DR. before their name has some obligation to that ‘do no harm’ rule. No harm. I would suspect if you have lived anywhere on Earth for at least 10 years no matter what country it is, you have some notion of the ‘N’-word and its derogatory connotation toward Blacks in America, if not other countries as well. That is the history of the word and how mankind has allowed it to have so much power over a people in just one country on this big old planet. I am suggesting that this is one of the few words which usage is automatically understood universally no matter what country of origin you may have. This person of advisement, knowledge, position, authority, intellect and influence thought having a Black Man elected to the office of the Presidency was permission to bring this particular word into her everyday conversations with her listening audience. A Black President now meant that this derogatory term was now all that and then some, that being Whites now had access to our stupidity too!
Her rationale was the old tried and true; “Well you hear it done by Blacks on the streets all the time, why is it that they can do it and we Whites can’t, isn’t that exclusion?” Is that not segregating a group from using the same language understood by this society to be used by the Black population in America today? And now that we have a Black man as President, hell we Whites don’t even have to ask any more because now he really is ours as well as the Blacks because all Presidents are ours, it goes with being an American, damn it, that is just the way it is. As an adviser to people and families, certainly unaware of the pain attached to the ‘N’-word or so far removed from those tumultuous times in this country’s history, with so little empathy as to assume such a blatantly discourteous state of mind and assume such an asinine position. All of a sudden, even with the fact that we still can’t drive Black, or be Black over on the east side of Manhattan or other parts of town depending on where we Blacks live, or shop Black in the wrong stores or neighborhoods, Whites can now use ignorant street terminology in their everyday American vernacular. With all of her intellect and wisdom, this was the conclusion she came to and felt was worthy of investing time into and sharing with any audience. This person gets paid good money to criticize some, belittle others, and just straight abuse the rest of those calling into her programs over the years, Dr. Laura built her reputation on conservative principles chastising those looking to take the easy way out in difficult times in life while attempting to get away with paying a price for poor decision making leading up to the whatever hardship that now ensued. I mostly agreed with her rationale but not her bedside manner. She was always so unnecessarily mean-spirited in her approach.
I stopped listening to her long ago as I limit my exposure to people who are mean spirited in their approach to life and their interaction with others. It was something I learned to protect myself very early in life, as little exposure as possible to people who behave in that manner. I think she lasted about 3 months before I sought another person to listen during that timeslot. I am only giving her due because of the brouhaha about her usage of the dreaded ‘N’-word. My only question to her would be: I have heard you over the years, you never appeared to be so Black before this and now all of a sudden you feel Black enough to be my homeskillet with the verbiage? Me and my peeps are not aware of you rolling this way prior to this or really even since this sudden ‘Black’ moment you seem to be having. Ain’t peeped you up on 125th Street, or I don’t know how many MLK Jr. Way’s across America, or up in the Heights in any hood advising or advocating or even spending money with all these years unless some sort of commerce or profit was attached. If I am wrong, please feel free to enlighten. So giving a soul, she, Dr. Laura own mother was not found for two months after having passed on, judging and advising others for stage and profit is what she be. Dr. Laura in her infinite wisdom, she decided for some reason if being Black was going to be a thing to be for her when she did it chooses defiantly to be the worst possible one she could and then said she didn’t understand what the problem was. She did feel obligated later to pull herself from the airwaves an hour later; I guess that was her version of putting herself in timeout. That she will still be on her show because there will be no price to pay by management unless they see long term profit loss, is not the issue. The sad thing is that someone will dial into her show since having the “Ni**er! Ni**er! Ni**er! Episode”. No way she could have done any harm during that show, none at all.
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