Ever since I was a child, I have had to listen to that shrew Dr. Laura with my mother. She likes that bitchy/'honest' advice, whatever that is. But I have finally convinced my mother that Dr. Laura is a lousy person to listen to. It's a sobering victory, though, since Dr. Laura is 'through with radio' now (http://bit.ly/9IIloU).
The funny thing is that, unlike much of the mainstream, I am more concerned with her comments as opposed to her use of a racial slur. I don't think using the n-word makes a person a racist, but some of the other things she said filled in the blanks and made me comfortable calling her a racist.
Let's chop this up, shall we:
- 'I saw your people doing it on the talking box' is NEVER a good reason to do anything. I still can't believe she seriously thought it was okay to swear at that woman because she saw black people saying the n-word on HBO!
- Obama has absolutely nothing to do with anyone's marriage but his own. Why did Dr. Laura bring up the 2008 election when a woman is asking about her marriage? Hmmm...
- Being offended after you've been cussed at does not mean you are hypersensitive or you don't have a sense of humor. There was nothing humorous about what Dr. Laura was saying. That's why she had to apologize.
- Repeating a racial slur to a person of that particular race does not make them less offended. When you perceive that you have offended someone, you stop. Dr. Laura's parents raised a bully.
- Black-think is 'distressing and distrubing', eh? 'It's all about power'? I do not understand how black-think or (possibly?) black power have anything to do with that woman's marriage. How is 'please make your friends stop calling me names' trying to fight the establishment?
Dr. Laura apologized for using the n-word (http://huff.to/d2TPJo), but she did not apologize for taking a disgustingly prejudiced and offensive stance against a woman who was asking for her advice. As someone who has been forced to listen to this horrid woman for years, I can reasonably assert that, had this woman not mentioned that she was a black woman in an interracial marriage, the good doctor would have told her to stick it to her husband and give him an ultimatum. What Dr. Laura did instead was attack a woman who was already humbling herself by asking for her help. THEN she had the gall to tell the woman that she should not be married to her husband despite the fact that, from what the caller said, the problem was with people outside of her marriage.
I have never been a fan of Dr. Laura, but this time she seriously went out of her way to attack a woman. That was truly and blatantly racist.
For the entire conversation between Dr. Laura and her confused victim, http://bit.ly/arGYmn. I never knew why anyone would call that woman anyways...
