Paula Deen, "Nigger", and Angry Blacks.

Paula Deen, "Nigger", and Angry Blacks

There's a big stir over Paula Deen using the word nigger. Personally, I don't care; everyone uses it now. Everyone. Blacks, Hispanics, Whites, Asians-everyone says nigger.

I understand why the Food Network terminated Deen as a result of this. I also understand why Pepsi terminated its sponsorship of Mountain Dew with rapper Lil' Wayne for his offensive reference of Emmett Till in his lyrics- a business that wants customers of every race and ethnicity cannot tolerate offensive and insensitive remarks about race and ethnicity.

The daily double-why are blacks so outraged by all of this? This is a common word used in their vernacular daily and I don't see any of them getting offended when one of their own say nigger. You will hear juvenile justifications such as, "We say nigga, not nigger." Newsflash-nigga is nigger mispronounced!

In any event, Bill Maher made an interesting point regarding this controversy-terminate Deen over this situation, but rap records that uses the same language continues to be embraced? Where is the punitive actions for lyricists using nigger in their music? There isn't any.

Quite frankly, this is becoming tiresome. If blacks use nigger so frequently in their every-day-vernacular without being offended once, why get upset over Paula Deen using it? Is there really a difference? No, this is nothing more but hypocrisy and the engendering of a double standards.