Having seen the clip of “Dr” Laura where she couldn’t stop herself from using the “N’ word, I’m more disgusted with her than ever.
She makes me sick with her ranting. It was more than her repeating the “N” word it was that she told this woman that she shouldn’t be so sensitive when her husband’s family used it, and that if she couldn’t be ok with it, she shouldn’t be in an interracial relationship. I can’t help but wonder what Laura personally thinks about interracial relationships.
While many people in any kind of interracial, inter religious relationship etc. will have to deal with some misconceptions, or lack of education about a group, it not a given that all of their families will be racist, make racist comments, or and use any other derogatory terms. Laura made it sound like that’s just what happens in all of them. This just shows how narrow and ignorant Schlesinger is about race. On the one hand she berates the woman for being “too sensitive” about race, and on the other hand, she appears to say, all white people are racist and learn to live with it no matte what.
I was in an interracial relationship for 18 years with my late partner who was African American. We spent a lot of time with our families. We never sat around with them, while they made derogatory comments about Black people, Jewish people , White people or anyone else. I don’t spend time with friends of different ethnicities, skin color, religions, etc. expecting to be insulted about my background.
People I know who have encountered those attitudes don’t spend time with family. Why would any one want to spend all of their energy, deflecting bigotry.
Schlesinger said that basically being upset about being called racist names was a “Black people’s problem”, and then kept using the word when the woman told her to stop.
I find it bizarre that people like her, Glenn Beck and others say what ever they want and remain on the air, while other people who have a more diverse audience, and actually listen when criticized get kicked off for less serious comments.
I hope no one else ever calls Laura Schlesinger with a problem about racism, or any other subject of importance.
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