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Oh...Dr. Laura...

There were times I actually kinda liked her as she occasionally could talk some sense...but then she would start talking crazy and we'd have to turn her off.

It was one of those moments when I heard the clip from her broadcast the other day. A woman calls - a black woman with a white husband who doesn't say anything when his friends make insensitive remarks. Dr. Laura automatically thinks the caller is being overly sensitive. And then she goes on about how "black comics on HBO" and such say "Ni**er, ni**er, ni**er" all the time, basically trying to make the argument that perhaps there is a double standard as white people can just never say "the N-word" (and rightly so). Now I get trying to not be over sensitive and wondering why black people still use the n-word (pretty much to take back a derogatory term and make it their own...but it's still ugly to me), but then, when the caller remarked on Dr. Laura's rather free use of "ni**er", Dr. Laura picked up that shovel and started digging her hole with "Don't NAACP me!". She then kept digging, telling the caller that she was oversensitive and that if she didn't have a sense of humor she shouldn't have married outside her race.

And now she is going to leave her radio show and claims that she is fighting for her 1st Amendment Rights...just as she did back in 2000 when she got in trouble for ranting against gay people saying that they were an abomination and essentially that they needed to be fixed and she knew some good programs that did just that.

Yes, you have a 1st Amendment right to spout your bigoted nonsense, but you have to remember that, like with all of us, there are consequences...particularly when you spout ugliness.

The real problem here is how conservatives are sticking up for Dr. Laura.Conservatives have been encouraging race baiting ever since Obama became president. They can't handle the change and are doing everything in their power to make it impossible for him to do his job properly. It is a sad state of affairs when they, under the guise of promoting free speech, merely support and perpetuate race baiting and fearmongering. Is that really the best thing for our country? Personally, I think not.

KEEP PAYING ATTENTION!

Peace --Alex

posted by funkweee @ 3:09 PM