Dr. Laura Schlessinger is quitting radio at the end of the year. It’s no coincidence that this is happening just a couple of weeks after she repeatedly used the N word on her radio show in an angry conversation with a black caller.
Is it ever right to use the N word? I personally don’t think so, as it’s a terrible word which obviously has a long history of being used to keep a whole race of people in their place.
But Dr. Laura seemed to forget, or choose to ignore this fact, when she used it 11 times in the space of five minutes when she was talking to a female caller on her radio show.
Dr. Laura, and the right wing press, have jumped on the controversy as evidence that the U.S. people’s freedom of speech is being eroded. Which is rubbish, obviously. It’s never been acceptable to use racist language, and why would anyone even want to in the first place.
