I may have to cancel my subscription to the newspaper. Sometimes it just brings too much frustration to my front door. It appears that Dr. Laura will be "retiring" from her radio show this year and that is making headlines in the news.
Kathleen Parker, a columnist for the Washington Post wrote a piece that was carried in the Sunday paper about Dr. Laura Schlessinger and the dust up about her use of the N-word, on national radio. Schlessinger basically claimed her First Amendment rights of freedom of expression and Kathleen Parker tells us why Dr. Laura was wrong to do so. Ms. Parker explains in her article:
"Dr. Laura's stated point was that since blacks frequently use the N-word, whites should be able to as well. She was correct that the word gets lots of exercise - and her use of it was in the prosecution of that point. Even so, the N-words stands alone as too injurious for whites to use, period. Everyone knows this.
When blacks use it, they are reclaiming the word, robbing its power to intimidate by making it their own .The same spirit was behind Eve Ensler's "Reclaiming C---" in The Vagina Monologues. Used by a man against a woman, the word is vile and threatening. Used by women among women, it becomes something else. Silly, if you ask me, but benign."
????
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
The C word is silly?
Not.
Nigger ain't right either.
But white or black, man or woman there are just some things that aren't said in polite society. You don't get a pass if you're a certain color or sex. If it's nasty - let's not "OWN" it. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Until we begin think and act as "people", without special considerations for race, religion, color etc. we're never going to make it.
We all bring our own reservations, prejudices and experiences to the table. This love one another thing that is universal in almost all religions is extremely difficult to achieve.
But it doesn't mean we shouldn't keep working on it.
And having some people responsible for their actions and others not?
Soooo not a good place to start.
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