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Thank you, Michael Richards
By Leonard Pitts | Wednesday, December 06, 2006
The N-word has had few friends better than comedian Paul Mooney.
Put aside that the word was long a staple of his act. Put aside the promotional pamphlet he once sent out that screamed the word in big, fat type. Consider instead what he told anyone who argued that blacks should stop using the word. He replied that he said it a hundred times every morning. “It keeps my teeth white.”
Last week, the selfsame Paul Mooney joined the Rev. Jesse Jackson and California Rep. Maxine Waters in a news conference asking black folks to stop using the N-Word. In other news, there are unconfirmed reports of pigs flying above Times Square.
Mooney says he was “cured” of his N-word addiction by Michael Richards’ infamous meltdown last month at the Laugh Factory. I tend to think he’s not the only one. Everywhere I turn lately, I find black folk debating the stubborn insistence some of us have on using this word.
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As a FOOL, glad MICHAEL RICHARDS INCIDENT is not CHANGING ANY PART OF ME with this 'N' matter. If we are still dealing with issue like this, it sets us up to START OVER, when we should be DONE WITH THIS.
Oh well.