A Missouri teacher’s use of the N-word sparked a conversation on the daytime television talk show “The View” that made one of the co-hosts take a trip down memory lane.
Whoopi Goldberg and her co-hosts discussed a geometry teacher in Missouri that was filmed by a student repeatedly saying the N-word to teach a lesson about the word. The teacher was placed on leave and then resigned. The student was suspended from school for violating the school’s cellphone policy.
The topic made Goldberg revisit a moment between her and former co-host Barbara Walters.
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“We used to have this conversation every couple of months on this show because Barbara would pose that same question: ‘Well, why can’t I say it?’ I said, ‘Well, go ahead and do it. See what happens.’ Because people want to know. I say, ‘Well, you can say it. Go ahead,’” Goldberg said on yesterday’s episode of “The View.”
Walters had a heated discussion in 2011 with former co-host Sherri Shepherd about the use of the word. The conversation started because the panel was discussing then-Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s family owning a hunting place in West Texas with a historic rock that has the words ‘N****rhead’ painted on it. Perry also would host hunting trips there with fellow politicians, friends, and supporters, according to The Washington Post.
Shepherd didn’t like that Walters was saying the word even though she was discussing the same topic.
“I heard you say it, and it was fine. You said it a different way,” Shepherd said to Goldberg.
She then turned to Walters and expressed how she felt when she said the same word.
“When I heard you say it, I didn’t like the way you said it, ” Shepherd said to Walters.
“I know, it’s a semantics thing….
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