Madam Prezident: Sherri Shepherd Has No Problem with Using the N-Word

Sherri Shepherd has a strange amount of comfort with the N-word. The outspoken show host said that she believes that it’s ok to use the n-word if you are black, but not ok if you’re white.

“That word brings up so many issues with everybody. I have Black friends who hate the word and don’t want it used. I respect those friends, and I don’t use the word around them. However, this is a word that was in my family.

When my uncle played dominos and spades, I heard it used in the utmost of affection. My mother used this word with my father, and my cousin used to say it at our family reunions. I also heard it when I moved to the suburbs in Chicago, and it was used very negatively towards me by white people. To hear a white person say it just brings back those negative feelings.”

In the midst of her “explanation,” Sheppherd went as far as to say that the power of the word has been taken away.

“The power was taken out of the word, and I know where it comes from. I respect Richard Pryor for deciding not to use it after he returned from his trip to Africa. For me, this word was just a fun word attached to some wonderful memories of people in my family.”

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Mazal Yisrael

The word “NIGGER” or Nigga,was used in a derogatory manner towards so-called blacks during the institution of physicak slavery and it was not because of our skin color but,because of what so-called black people had done to cause them to go into slavery in the first place.I have done some research on the origin of the word “NIGGER” to fine out what is a “NIGGER” and who is the real “NIGGER”,my research led me to the “ROGET’S INTERNATIONAL THESAURUS, on page,418.3 said that the first “NIGGER” is the White Man,a Caucasian and, Whitey made every body else which came under his teachings a “NIGGER” therefore, I have no problem with the word “NIGGER” for I know who the real NIGGER is.

Wil56

WOW! Sherri Shepard needs to close her big mouth.
teabaggers are idiots

Some people come on black blogs just like use the word to degrade blacks.

David2001

Sherri Shepherd is a black buffoon. The main reason black entertainers like her use it is because they get paid well by a white racist entertainment industry. The n word is like a password that’s open the door for many black entertainers, comedians, rappers, actors etc. White people will bust out laughing and pay top dollar at the site of hearing a dumb self hating black comedian rapper etc using the n word. Even though Richard Pryor was a talented comedian he would have never had the crossover success with whites if the n word was NOT in his vocabulary. Even Pryor after he got rich from using it said he was wrong to use it and never used it again. The Hollywood movie and TV industry has historically been monopolized by racist Jews that would never allow the slur K*KE to be used for entertainment value. But these same hypocritical Jews get rich opening the door for dumb ignorant Negros like Sherri Shepherd to degrade black people for fame and a few dollars. You can NOT take the meaning or power out of the n word and we as black people shouldn’t try. All idiots like Shepherd is doing is making a profit from it and lamely trying to justify it. This is an example of black people who bought into the racial diversity integration concept. Basically all that’s about is staying on the plantation and being at the mercy of whites, instead of owning and controlling your own.
Barbara_cox205

SHERRI SHEPHERD IS OUT OF CONTEXT WITH THE REAL WORLD. THE N-WORD HAS NO PLACE IN CONVERSATIONS WHETHER JOKING OR WHATEVER PERIOD. I HEARD ENOUGH GROWING UP AND STILL HEAR IT TODAY IN 2012. ENOUGH ALREADY. IT IS OFFENSIVE AND JUST NOT NICE TO HEAR FROM BLACKS OR WHITES PERIOD. SHE NEEDS TO FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO OPEN HER MOUTH ABOUT. OH BY THE WAY, SHE ALSO SEEMS TO BE HUNG UP ON “SEX”. SHE IS SO DEGRADING ON HE VIEW WHEN SHE JUST HAS TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT HER SEX LIFE WHICH I WOULD NOT LIKE TO TO HEAR. YOU ARE EMBRASSING SHERRI AND IT SHOWS DAILY, FROM THE THINGS THAT COME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH TO WATCHING YOU EAT ON TV. TRYING BE MORE LADY LIKE YOU HAVE A CHILD AND A HUSBAND AT HOME. KEEP YOUR SEX LIFE AT HOME WTIH YOUR NEW HUSBAND PLEASE AND OFF THE VIEW. THIS IS OFFENSIVE AND SO IS THE N-WORD.
http://twitter.com/thescoop1 H. Lewis Smith

Sherri Shepherd clearly having grown up in an environment that used the word as common language seems to have become desensitized to the term and ignorantly use it not understanding that she is foolishly carrying out an on-going 400-year-old mind control scheme. Just because she has heard its use throughout her life doesn’t make use of the term right nor does it downplay or eradicate its effects. Similarly, just
because one grows up in the house with an alcoholic parent, then as an adult
they drink alcohol their whole life—picking up the habit from their parent—doesn’t make the activity right nor does it downplay its effects—one will still end up with cirrhosis of the liver and die.
Sheritownsend100

Surely we know that Sherri Shepherd is not the brightest woman around. When Obama was running for president, she said, he was White, because he had a White mother. She said this on “The View”. When Sarah Pallin first came on the scene, as a running mate with John McCain, Sherri was totally in Palin’s corner and was highly upset because she felt that Sarah was being attacked only because she was a woman. I do believe a woman named Hillary Clinton was around too, but Sherri didn’t seem to think of that. She criticized the show “Basketball Wives”, as having a bad influence, yet stating she watches it. One comment she made, on the view, was so ludicrous, it made the talk shows. In fact, I don’t know why “Your Black World” would repeat anything Sherri says. Listening to her is a waste.
corbin56

We all know that Ms. Shepard isn’t very bright. It takes her a while to come up with something to say and when she does…oh boy. It is so painful to watch.
Anonymous

Sherri Shepherd is too pitiful to be funny. Her comments defy logic.
Rozferguson65

Sherri Shepard is a fool with a job. She is just as ignorant as the hip-hop culture that believes there is no longer power in the word. That they have reclaimed the word. How ridiculous!
It is unfortunate that Shepard grew up in a family and environment that used the so lightly. However, when she was called the n-word by whites she had enough sense to know it wasn’t “affectionate!”
I’ve long thought Shepard was a bit stupid, by some of her comments on The View. Since I rarely watch the show I chalked it up to her having a bad day. I guess not. She is to be pitied.
Bunni

There are times when I am embarrassed for Sheri. I think they keep her on ‘The View’ simply for her air-headed POV. And the fact that she ain’t exactly a light load of laundry (read: Star Jones’ clone) helps her have the platform to display her ignorance.
Anonymous

Sherri is the focus of this article, but in reality, she is just one in a spectrum of the black community that have bought into the lie that the power of the word has been removed. We get pissed off at Sherri, but how many examples in the world of black entertainment do we have of singers, rappers, actors, etc. who have made money off of the darkside of the African-American expressions of self-hate and violence, then tell those who disagree with them that it’s just business. Sherri and other blacks like her provide the transference of the power of the word back into the hands of racists in America. It is Racism 101 made easy. Racists don’t have to call us by the word anymore, just treat us like we are one. How do you think Gingrich, Romney, Perry and the other dwarfs get their audacity to make statements about our community. It is because of misguided blacks like Herman Cain, Michael Steel, Juan Williams, Rev. Jesse Peterson (want’s us back on the plantation) who keep their mouths shut about such statements to the point that when they do speak out none of those racists on the right take them serious. Conclusion: by so called “taking the power out of the word,” we gave up the right to protest its use by whites and its use as a motivation by whites to further economically and politically demote us as a people. You cannot give white racists a noose to hang you with and then tell them they cannot start picking out trees to hang you from.
Blu

My comment is: The N-word is a black private joke NOT intended for whites or any other race to use. Is it right to use the word we grew up being cursed with? Yes! ..Why ? because we’ve managed to turn a negative into a positive but for Blacks only.
Yes! ” I said what I meant and I mean what I say.” What gives me the right to call a white person Trailer Trash? I don’t have that right, it’s a private joke between them and yes it is automatically taken out of context when used by anyone outside of that race.
Let’s stop pretending it’s offensive to blacks said among ourselves when you know it isn’t. It’s like a sister and brother of the same parents disagreeing with one another strongly and ready to have a fisk fight and some guy comes up and wants to hit the brother over the head for insulting his sister.
Sure they’re both angry, but Blood is thicker than water and at that moment they both turn on the man seemingly trying to stick up for his sister. This is the only way I can explain to my audience and have you understand the privacy in this word. So that’s why White people you can not say the N-Word it ,it’s not and never has been a positive word coming from you or your forefathers. On second thought why would you want to call anyone a hurtful name unless you support and want to continue ignorance.
Anyone who’s black and says this word bothers them in the setting used among there own is lying POINT BLANK. Now! I grant you at any given time you can go to a function with a black family members and the word will be passed around like hot butter rolls. It’s not thought of twice. However: anyone in there right mind knows how to conduct themselves accordingly as everyone should.
But the word Nxgger definition does not have a color attached to it simply because our constitution wouldn’t allow it to be anything more than it says in your dictionary for moral purposes. Just keeping it REAL! We do have some older people who can’t seem to forget and have not forgiven the idiosyncrasies of prejudice illiterate ignorant people.
So there you go.

Nzingha

The N-word was not invented by Blacks. It was & is a de-humanizing word given by Whites, because they did not classifyslaves as HUMANS. When Black people heard that word, a Black women was being raped, beaten, whipped& degraded, & Black males were being castrated, whipped & hung from the highest tree with all of the Black slaves watching. to put more fear of the white man in them. Have we as Black people not learned yet it is our right to name & define ourselves? That is a BULLY word given to us by white people. Did God give us that word? Is that word in the Bible. I was brought up to have pride & self respect. My Dad, Uncles, Siblings, never used that word. When I did hear that N-word as a kid, it was a fighting word.The older people, still have pride & self respect., so no, they can’t forget that they have a right to be treated as humans, & don’t have to accept Bullying words that you didn’t give to yourself. Bullying has been around for Blacks for a long time. We still don’t have to accept them, internalize them & pass them on to the next generation so they display self-hatred. There is nothing affectionate about the N-word. If so, then we should all be calling our Mothers, Grandmothers, & babies that. This is the TRUTH, I have 5 Generations in my family, & no we don’t use the N-word.