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OK for Urban radio personalities to use the "N" word

J

JerseyDude

Hot 97's Miss Jones uses the "N" word almost every morning on her show.
Al Sharpton has a talk show down the hall at sister station Kiss FM. He recently had a show about how blacks shouldn’t use the "N" word. Most blacks tell me that it's OK for her and other black radio personalities to use that word, but if someone from Z-100 or WABC (Curtis Sliwa) were to use it, they would boycott the station's advertisers.

They tell me thats just the way it is?
Any thoughts?
 
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If Imus used it during his recent situation,He would have been run out of the business. Richard Pryor used that word alot during a great part of his career but decided not to continue its use after a trip to Africa after his freebasing accident.If it is objectionable for some groups to use it, it should be objectionable for all.
 
The technical answer:

Anybody can saying anything at any time. Whether they get away with it is something else. If someone uses the N word on a station and receives no backlash, that's one thing. But if another station uses the same word and advertisers pull their spots, it shows that station they can't drop the N bomb.

It really depends on the market and the format. For example, a rock or hot talk station jock can probably say d*** and nothing happens. But if a CHR jock says it, repercussions will probably follow.

The real answer:

Is that right? Not really. Going back to the N word, it is a double standard. But that's part of broadcasting which is seldom fair.
 
BIG TIME DOUBLE STANDARD - THERES NO ROOM IN RADIO FOR THAT IN THIS DAY AND AGE.

THEY SHOULD MAKE AN EXAMPLE AND FIRE HER
 
I hear alot of White People calling other White People " White Tr--h , Redn--k and W-gg-rs ". If I ( Black male ) said something like that , I will be Fired . Double Stardard Yes , is it fair , No . Life is not always fair . Advertisers are the real Judge .
 
Maybe it is time for an urban radio personality to begin using (and reclaiming) the word in its original context, as their
grand and great grandparents knew it, to describe a person determined to be lazy, unhelpful, a ne-er-do-well.

It was was a special term for those self-indulgent in sloth and ignorance.

The white man crafted and fashioned the word into the indiscriminate hateful epithet we currently suffer.
 
It's not just a double-standard.

It's not "common sense." Period.

The people, despite what some think, own the airwaves. The corporations own the business, only. Unless you can prevent all the people from hearing such an affront on other people, it shouldn't be used or tolerated on the public's air. It's not needed to make a statement.
 
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