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 Dr. Laura Schlessinger Says “Nigger” Repeatedly On Air To Caller | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:01:01

The biggest summer for racial tension since 1994 continues, this time with a strange, n-word-laden rant from what has been typically perceived as a fairly innocuous source: Dr. Laura Schlessinger. Speaking to a black caller who called for advice on handling racial tensions with her white husband, Dr. Laura uses the offensive word eleven times and ultimately tells the caller that if she doesn't "have a sense of humor," she should not "marry out of your race." The caller explained that she was beginning to grow "resentful" of her husband because he seemed comfortable with a neighbor continually making racist comments about her. When asked to give an example, the caller told Schlessinger that he had used the n-word, to which she replied that she didn't see a problem with that. "Black guys," she explained, "use it all the time. Turn on HBO, listen to a black comic, and all you hear is n*gger, n*gger, n*gger." Then, of course, the conversation veered inevitably (and uncomfortably) towards Barack Obama, with Schlessinger continuing: "We have a black man as president and we have more complaining about racism than ever." After the caller expressed some discomfort with the tone of Schlessinger's comments, the host scolded her, telling her not to "NAACP me" [according to the dictionary, the proper term is to Breitbart] and, finally, "if you're that hypersensitive about color, and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race." Wow. Not that Dr. Laura hasn't gotten in trouble for insensitive comments before: In 2002, Schlessinger found herself in hot water for calling homosexuality "a biological mistake." That, however, was not directed at a particular caller, nor did it use specific slurs. Dr. Laura's rant made it to primetime tonight thanks to CNN's Rick Sanchez, who led his 8PM program with the story, getting ahead of The O'Reilly Factor (leading with a 14th Amendment debate) and Countdown (leading with an interview with an American mechanic). Update: Dr. Laura has apologized on her website. Her words: "Black guys use it all the time. Turn on HBO and listen to a black comic, and all you hear is nigger, nigger, nigger. I don't get it. If anybody without enough melanin says it, it's a horrible thing. But when black people say it, it's affectionate." Later, the on-air discussion with a caller identified as a black woman went like this:CALLER: "Is it OK to say that word? Is it ever OK to say that word?" DR. LAURA: "It depends how it's said. Black guys talking to each other seem to think it's okay." CALLER: "But you're not black, they're not black, my husband is white." DR. LAURA: "Oh, I see, so a word is restricted to race. Got it. Can't do much about that." CALLER: "I can't believe someone like you is on the radio spewing out the n-word, and I hope everybody heard it." DR. LAURA: "I didn't spew out the n-word!" CALLER: "You said 'nigger, nigger, nigger,' and I hope everybody heard it." DR. LAURA: "Yes they did, and I'll say it again: nigger, nigger, nigger is what you hear on HBO." And... DR. LAURA: Why don't you let me finish a sentence? Don't take things out of context. Don't NAACP me, leave them in context.After the conversation with the caller, Schlessenger added: ""If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry outside of your race." Schlessinger wrote an aplogy that appeared on her Web site. "Yesterday, I did the wrong thing," she wrote. "I didn't intend to hurt people, but I did. And that makes it the wrong thing to have done. I was attempting to make a philosophical point, and I articulated the 'n' word all the way out--more than one time. And that was wrong. I'll say it again—that was wrong."Schlessinger wrote that she "was so upset [she] could not finish the show... I pulled myself off the air at the end of the hour. I had to finish the hour, because 20 minutes of dead air doesn't work. I am very sorry. And it just won't happe

 Shirley Sherrod: The FULL Speach To The NAACP | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:01:01

Good evening. Olivia, I want to thank you for those kind words. You know, it's been a pleasure working with her over the last 10 years. I've missed the work. [I] had to move on to some other -- other work, and I'll talk to you more about that. To the president of the NAACP, here, and the board of directors, and members, and all the others here, it is indeed a pleasure for me to be with you this evening. And I want to say to you, I am very proud to be working with the Obama Administration to help rural America's welfare. I want to do all I can to help rural communities such as yours to be a place where we can have a quality life and a comfortable life for our families and our friends. But before I give you -- even before I -- I go into what I have here, I want to -- I want to second something that Olivia said. You know, I grew up on the farm and I didn't want to have anything to do with agriculture, but she was right. There are jobs at USDA, and many times there are no people of color to fill those jobs 'cause we shy away from agriculture. We hear the word "agriculture" and think only of working in the fields. And you've heard of a lot of layoffs. Have you heard of anybody in the federal government losing their job? That's all that I need to say, okay? And I -- I might say a little bit more to the young people. It's good to have you all here. I want to share something with you this evening, something that's always heavy on my heart each day, but especially at this time of the year. It was 45 years ago today that my father's funeral was held. I was a young girl at the age of 17 when my father was murdered by a white man in Baker County. In Baker County, the murder of black people occurred periodically, and in every case the white men who murdered them were never punished. It was no different in my father's case. There were three witnesses to his murder, but the grand jury refused to indict the white man who murdered him. I should tell you a little about Baker County. In case you don't know where it is, it's located less than 20 miles southwest of Albany. Now, there were two sheriffs from Baker County that -- whose names you probably never heard but I know in the case of one, the thing he did many, many years ago still affect us today. And that sheriff was Claude Screws. Claude Screws lynched a black man. And this was at the beginning of the 40s. And the strange thing back then was an all-white federal jury convicted him not of murder but of depriving Bobby Hall -- and I should say that Bobby Hall was a relative -- depriving him of his civil rights. So, in the opinion, when the justice wrote his opinion and justifying overturning the conviction, he said you had to prove that as the sheriff was murdering Bobby Hall he was thinking of depriving him of his civil rights. That's where the whole issue of proving intent came from and you heard it a lot. It was used a lot during the Civil Rights Movement. What you also heard a lot when Rodney King was beaten out in California. Y'all might remember that. They kept saying you had to prove intent -- and that came from Screws vs. the U.S. Government. I'm told that case is studied by every law student. And usually when we have people coming into Southwest Georgia, and wanting to take some tours of -- of things were some events happened during the Civil Rights Movement, I usually take them to the courthouse in Newton to show where Bobby's Hall's body was displayed. During my years of growing up, the sheriff was L. Warren Johnson. He wanted to be called "The Gator," and that's how people referred to him 'cause he had a holler that would make you want to tremble. He also killed a lot of black people -- and Gator Johnson was the law in Baker County. And when I say that I mean no one, black or white, could ride through the County with an out-of-county tag. That means you could have a tag from anywhere else in Georgia -- you couldn't ride through Baker County withou...

 Texas Textbook Showdown Begins | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:01:01

Texas School Board members are meeting in Austin this week for what’s sure to be a showdown over the curriculum for social studies textbooks. Conservative board members have moved to reverse what some see as liberal bias in the classroom and in textbooks. Critics charge the interim changes whitewash American history and downplay the role of African-Americans, Latinos and women. Watch the latest video at FoxNews.com Why should you care? Texas is such a huge purchaser of textbooks that often other states will buy books that were originally created for Texas standards. Those standards are revised for each subject about every 10 years. At issue this week is the social studies standards for children in kindergarten through the 12th grade. Originally a committee of teachers and community members came up with revisions to the curriculum. Those revisions went through what’s called a “first reading” in January. A block of eight conservative board members found fault with the preliminary revisions and made changes. More revisions were made during the “second reading” last March. Then, Texas board members voted 10-5 to adopt changes in line with social conservative views. Some liberal board members stormed out of the meeting after they felt their concerns weren’t being addressed. Now it’s down to the final vote this week. Board members are meeting beginning Tuesday at 1pm CST, but they won’t pick up the social studies curriculum till Wednesday at 9am CST. That’s when the public will be able to talk directly to board members about the draft revisions that came out of the March meetings. So far, 206 people have signed up to speak. Each will have three minutes to make their views known. The Texas Board of Education has already been receiving calls and emails from the public about the revisions for the past month. You can see a summary of the first three weeks of  public opinion to the board. click here The issue is complex. Conservatives on the board say the curriculum they received in January and March was way out of whack. Now liberal board members are saying the standards have ticked too far to the other side.

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