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Controversy After Barbara Walters And Whoopi Goldberg Use N-Word On Air [VIDEO]

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Barbara Walters and Whoopi Goldberg used the N-word on “The View” during a discussion of the controversy surrounding Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry.

Over the weekend, it was reported that the Texas governor has longtime ties to hunting grounds located on property that’s been referred to quite offensively as “N*ggerhead.”

Things got intense this morning after “The View” panel began talking about Perry’s disputed past and rival candidate Herman Cain‘s response to it.

ABC bleeped out the full term when Goldberg and Walters used it, but the studio audience gasped and Sherri Shepherd told Walters, “I didn’t like the way you said it” (compared to Goldberg’s use of the charged term).

“I’m not sure if it’s a semantics thing, but it’s something that goes through my body… I probably could never explain the way I feel,” said Shepherd.

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The tension highlights a debate that comes up again and again in journalism and pop culture – Should that word be used when it’s at the heart of a news story being reported?

Should Walters and Goldberg have been allowed to say it on the air?

Should a newspaper or website feel free to print it (as the original Washington Post report did)?

It’s obviously an extremely sensitive issue.

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  • What

    My god I know its cold in New York but how many layers does Whoopi have on in that picture? She gotten bigger then a house.

  • Misaelnyc_2000

    Sherri is such an idiot, Barbara was just reporting the story. Look at Sherri wedding album, there are no white people at her wedding, except Elizabeth. Sherri also said the first time she ever voted was two years ago for Obama. The women is 43 and this is the first time she voted. Again, what an idiot.

  • Joe

    thought it very interesting how Sherri listed other cultural and racial epithets such as “WOP” as words alone…but then let “Jew you down” roll off of her tongue. It was not an apt comparison to awful racist names.. It was not just a word, but a cultural and religious stereotype and anti-semetic put down.. which took it a step further. It made me think that this was a saying that she was quite comfortable with.

  • Anonymous

    Spot on. There’s a clip of the View where Sherri says the world could be flat. Really.

  • sunset shines

    OK…..how does the conversation on The View get so off the actual point…..a republican presidentail candidate and his family own a hunting ground that has the title of “niggerhead” at the gated entrance. That is the real story!!! How is it that America still feeds into such outright hatred.

  • deeee

    The word was almost forgotten until the rapper’s brought it back. The white kids pay for their music and what they are not suppose to sing that word because they find it offensive it a white person says it…..drives me nuts. Personally this white woman can’t stand the word and would never use it and I cringe when I hear my kids say it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Luna-Petunia/100000789652822 Luna Petunia

    there are a # of ridiculous things here. 1st, this land is leased, not owned by Perry’s father and mother for a number of years, then, he leased it for a # of years. They never owned it. When the Name ‘N*ggerhead’ was painted over, that is the question, and oh yes, the name seeped through the cover paint. (ANOTHER controversey, Rick Perry does not know the proper paint to use to cover offensive graffiti! ) Anyhoo…. How long has this ‘hunting camp, with it’s name, existed???? Meaning, the word ‘N*gger’ was used as a NAME FOR ANIMALS, and other things in the 1800s. It was just another word for BLACK. Horses, dogs, whatever, got that name. It was not really offensive until, what, 2 decades ago? So, possibly, the camp was named, BLACKHEAD… hmmm, not that appealing that way either…. a clogged pore… Whatever, again, he does not OWN THE LAND… take it up with the OWNERS and ask THEM -who NAMED IT, WHO PUT THE NAME ON THE ROCK AND WHEN???? As for the Word, it is beyond MORONIC that anyone that is not black cannot say it, but BLACK PEOPLE CAN….. Don’t you think it is confusing to young kids, both white, brown and black? It is the same way with gay terms,…… okay for them, not for straight. You know, if the word is offensive, NO ONE SHOULD BE SAYING IT, it just shows ignorance on the part of the person. And Sherri saying she did not like Barbara saying it, in the context of the article, but it was okeedokee for Whoopi, just shows what an uneducated, ignorant person she is.

  • mymamasaid

    who is that racist woman in the middle!?? I’m sorry but I agree wit Whoopi! Its a word say it! When did they pass a law saying people of color are allowed to say some words and other people aren’t? That sherri needs to get over the color of her skin.

  • Anonymous

    If today’s youths and others really understood their history and the connotatio­n behind the n- word, they would perhaps think twice before using. I am reading and studying the turbulent 60′s and slavery before and after. And I will tell you, I am learning things I never knew and appreciati­ng what I have learned and still learning. KNOW your history. Not just read it but know it and understand it.

  • Lt.Bmoney

    lol on this what double standards i am black but really more whiney black ppl bitching on the n word. stop saying it yourselves it is every confusing for some white and other ppl. it is either okay to say for all of us or none of us. in iraq soldiers white and black call the good ppl of iraq that all the time:( “go run down their and killing those little n word” ) thats what i would hear, when will we wicked blacks of the usa wake up to our part in racism of today and stop playing the victim, the president is black, we all took no notice with almost everyone else as mostly black ppl were left to die in katrina at that superdome etc. when will we as black ppl step up. when? plus in israel most white jews call black jews etc that all the time, read about it in the planetary patriot, and seen vids on you tube. but that is cool. nobody dares gets outraged on that. i wonder why;) plus this all is just so stupid, more stupid tv talkin’ about stupid things by stupid ppl. can anyone just get a grip and just see that right thing done. can they. hey PP comeback to facebook etc at least you were on the money unlike these silly women. these payed actors :( as you would get more sense from the desperate housewives girls and they aint real:( peace out! america where are you????

  • Sindee

    Why is it ok for a black person to say the “n word” and not other races? its a word and whoever it comes out of it has the same meaning. So why dont we all just not say any racial words and not offend people?

  • Sindee

    btw sherris an idiot

  • Trypec

    Im Latino, we use Negro all the time. How else do we say Black. Not Oscuro=Dark Or we say “Moreno” that can be used to descrive a black person or a Latino with a dark skin. Infact Dark skin latinos are often called Negro by there girl friend, wife mother or anyone realy close to the person. Some times even the women too. Latinos come in two colors Piel Morena=Dark Skin and Piel Wera=Light Skin. You know Wero, Gringo they almost look like there white folk. Little known fact about Latinos: Dark Skin Latinos dont mingle to well with Light Skin latinos and like wise. Ask around.

  • jae

    When the world can comprehend that there is only one race, the human race, maybe the racism and hate perpetuated by ignorant people, no matter what the color of their skin is, will get the proper burial they deserve.

  • Martiia

    Why are only the whites whining about the word?

    Southerners just moved their hate from blacks to whoever they find that’s different from them. Then go on Facebook and act very sweet and religious.

    Sweet also is dishonest.

  • PunkFunk69

    Barbara is going to get Sherri for disrespecting her national TV. Just watch and see! She will be out of a job. Barbara is a very powerful woman and Sherri should have not came at her like that in public.

  • Eichelberger Cody

    Wow, I think that was a little racism on the View today…

  • emilyh

    It doesn’t matter who says it, the word is atrocious. Sherri needs to understand that it’s not okay for anyone to use it. If it’s not okay for Barbara to say it, then it’s not okay for TI or Wiz to use it. I think it confuses the young people of today about what it means. I’m a 20 year old white female and I can say that most people my age use it to refer to a friend or even a stranger on the street. I empathize with the generations of African Americans who feel like the casual use of this word is taking away from the struggles the black community went through for most of America’s history. Sherri shouldn’t like the way anyone says it. The fact of the matter is Barbara was just doing her job. The word either needs to be taken seriously or lightly, because in this day in age, depending on who you talk to, its one or the other.

  • Karen Hayes

    Sherri is a very ignorant woman and brings nothng to the view but her racism. She would not be missed by me. I hope Barbara does replace her with someone intelligent.

  • Bob

    I like the irony of Sherri being blind to her own racism. Do you take issue because I’m white? Yea.. LoL.

  • M_mccravy

    Good for Barbara instead of saying the N-word like every body in the media does she actually had the ball to use the word. People act like they have never heard the word nigger before. when they hear it they seem so schocked. Turn on any rap music and it comes up 100 times a song. If u would read the true meaning of the word, if it is still in the dictonary, it means a person of or with ignorance…. so there are alot of that around of any color

  • M_mccravy

    Good for Barbara instead of saying the N-word like every body in the media does she actually had the ball to use the word. People act like they have never heard the word nigger before. when they hear it they seem so schocked. Turn on any rap music and it comes up 100 times a song. If u would read the true meaning of the word, if it is still in the dictonary, it means a person of or with ignorance…. so there are alot of that around of any color

  • M_mccravy

    Not all southerners hate sound like hate southeners HMMMMMMMMM Is this Sheri

  • M_mccravy

    Not all southerners hate sound like hate southeners HMMMMMMMMM Is this Sheri

  • M_mccravy

    sounds like u hate people from the south…… Is this Sheri…..

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/W764QFFEVIVRJ66FXIVMS57DI4 Beverly Cromwell

    `whites invented the word so they shouldn’t say it period

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