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Hasselbeck Gets Heated, Teary Over N-word
July 17, 2008 2:09 PM
Elisabeth Hasselbeck let her emotions get the better of her, again.
The “View” co-host, who last year got into a shouting match about the Iraq war with former moderator Rosie O’Donnell, almost broke into tears today during a heated debate about why it’s OK for some people to use the n-word but not others.
“Sometimes I think it’s almost worse to use it privately than publicly,” she said, talking about how Jesse Jackson allegedly uttered the n-word during the same off-camera moment in which he said he wanted to castrate Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama.
Sherri Shepherd explained, “I can use it as a term of endearment [but] I don’t want to hear it come out of your mouth,” and Whoopi Goldberg chimed in too. But despite their reasoning and Barbara Walters’ remark that “everybody is giving you an answer,” Hasselbeck only got more heated.
“This is upsetting to me,” she said four minutes into the discussion, choking back tears. “This is a conversation that is hard and we’re going to have it here and we have it here well because we love each other. When we live in a world where pop culture that uses that term, and we’re trying to get to a place where we feel like we’re in the same place, where we feel like we’re in the same world, how are we supposed to then move forward if we keep using terms that bring back that pain?”
Goldberg offered an emphatic, “You must acknowledge the understanding of what it is and why it is,” which eventually quieted down Hasselbeck.
Hasselbeck, 31, last got teary in June, when Michelle Obama sat in on “The View” as a guest co-host. During a commercial break, Hasselbeck broke into tears while telling audience members she was sad to leave her baby boy, Taylor, for the first time to tape “The View” in Las Vegas. Obama looked over at the upset Hasselbeck and appeared to whisper to her and fellow co-host Sherri Shepherd, "Everything okay?"
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For all the white people who want to know why blacks can use the N word and they can't: It is because it was a word used in oppression and hatred by whites against blacks. The blacks took the word and used it themselves, taking some of the sting out of it, adopting it into their slang. Because it has been adopted into Black slang DOES NOT mean it has lost it's ability to offend when a white person uses the word. In short, if you are white, DO NOT say it.
BTW: I'm white. It doesn't take a genius to understand this. Elizabeth Hasselbeck is right wing lightweight. She needs to chime in on what she understands and be quiet when she doesn't know what she's talking about.
Posted by: Linda | Jul 17, 2008 2:52:25 PM
SHES JUST A YOUNG DUMB BLONDE AND COMING TO TERMS HER GRANDPA MCCAIN IS GONNA LOSE CAN HER ALREADY VIEW!!!!
Posted by: angie | Jul 17, 2008 2:52:32 PM
I'm so glad we can finally comment on this Hasselbeck or whatever her name is. She's got so much to say about nothing and most of it is negative "as far as Obama" is concerned. We can all tell what she's about. I'm so sick of hearing about what Hasselbeck has to say about this and that. There are other people on the view besides her and her thinking is what "BLONDE". So give me someone else's opinion and shut her up!
Posted by: Deborah Driver | Jul 17, 2008 2:53:08 PM
I'm a whitey .. so let me tell you about black folk and their reasoning!
Posted by: Linda. | Jul 17, 2008 2:53:40 PM
She's sickening!
Posted by: Deborah Driver | Jul 17, 2008 2:54:01 PM
Hasselbeck is a neocon mouthpiece, the pop equivalent of Dana Perino. That is why she continues to be inflicted on the viewing public while Rosie was long ago crucified for her courage.
http://www.watchingtheview.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/queen2.jpg
Posted by: neo | Jul 17, 2008 2:55:16 PM
I don't know why we put so much stock in what is said on the view - abc needs to get some better programming.
Posted by: Marianne | Jul 17, 2008 2:55:20 PM
I farted.
Posted by: Rod | Jul 17, 2008 2:56:03 PM
I hope she saves her money now, becouse when her looks go it is going to be all over for her. I know blondes do not like being steriotyped but she fits that description in every way.
Posted by: JOHN | Jul 17, 2008 2:56:10 PM
Rosie is a fat hog - Trump just said what everyone else feels ..
Posted by: Linda. | Jul 17, 2008 2:56:20 PM
I think Elizabeth is right, we have to solve this problem once and for all... if a word is hurtful to one group of people and the other group of people are okay with it... that is racial discremination... It is about time McCain and Obaba solve this issue
Posted by: Aba | Jul 17, 2008 2:56:33 PM
I keep hearing it a lot of "Why is it okay, that I, a white person, cannot use that word, but a black person can?" I am a white person, and I will tell you exactly why you can't - we have virtually decimated black families in the US starting with slavery, and thus have excluded ourselves from the right to partake in certain aspects of that culture, because we reflected (and still reflect) a cruel exclusionarity toward black culture. For hundreds of years they weren't allowed to marry, own property, or even enjoy the smallest civil liberties that we take for granted. Even now, blacks are nowhere near being on equal terms with white. People say, oh slavery is over, we can't be held accountable for something that happened so long ago. Well, it's NOT over, and we SHOULD be held accountable. We infected so much insanity toward that group of people that it is lasting to this day. As whites, we screwed up - really, really screwed up. Therefore, we cannot be expected to be involved or treated with equanimity by a culture that we treat unequally.
Posted by: Allison | Jul 17, 2008 2:56:39 PM
I keep hearing it a lot of "Why is it okay, that I, a white person, cannot use that word, but a black person can?" I am a white person, and I will tell you exactly why you can't - we have virtually decimated black families in the US starting with slavery, and thus have excluded ourselves from the right to partake in certain aspects of that culture, because we reflected (and still reflect) a cruel exclusionarity toward black culture. For hundreds of years they weren't allowed to marry, own property, or even enjoy the smallest civil liberties that we take for granted. Even now, blacks are nowhere near being on equal terms with white. People say, oh slavery is over, we can't be held accountable for something that happened so long ago. Well, it's NOT over, and we SHOULD be held accountable. We infected so much insanity toward that group of people that it is lasting to this day. As whites, we screwed up - really, really screwed up. Therefore, we cannot be expected to be involved or treated with equanimity by a culture that we treat unequally.
Posted by: Allison | Jul 17, 2008 2:56:43 PM
People have died to get that word out of people's mouth. The word shouldn't be used by anybody. Period. It's disrespectful.
This being said, I have no idea why Elisabeth Hasselbeck is on TV. She never has anything intelligent to contribute to the discussions on The View.
Posted by: Me Again | Jul 17, 2008 2:57:02 PM
I keep hearing it a lot of "Why is it okay, that I, a white person, cannot use that word, but a black person can?" I am a white person, and I will tell you exactly why you can't - we have virtually decimated black families in the US starting with slavery, and thus have excluded ourselves from the right to partake in certain aspects of that culture, because we reflected (and still reflect) a cruel exclusionarity toward black culture. For hundreds of years they weren't allowed to marry, own property, or even enjoy the smallest civil liberties that we take for granted. Even now, blacks are nowhere near being on equal terms with white. People say, oh slavery is over, we can't be held accountable for something that happened so long ago. Well, it's NOT over, and we SHOULD be held accountable. We infected so much insanity toward that group of people that it is lasting to this day. As whites, we screwed up - really, really screwed up. Therefore, we cannot be expected to be involved or treated with equanimity by a culture that we treat unequally.
Posted by: Allison | Jul 17, 2008 2:57:24 PM
I keep hearing it a lot of "Why is it okay, that I, a white person, cannot use that word, but a black person can?" I am a white person, and I will tell you exactly why you can't - we have virtually decimated black families in the US starting with slavery, and thus have excluded ourselves from the right to partake in certain aspects of that culture, because we reflected (and still reflect) a cruel exclusionarity toward black culture. For hundreds of years they weren't allowed to marry, own property, or even enjoy the smallest civil liberties that we take for granted. Even now, blacks are nowhere near being on equal terms with white. People say, oh slavery is over, we can't be held accountable for something that happened so long ago. Well, it's NOT over, and we SHOULD be held accountable. We infected so much insanity toward that group of people that it is lasting to this day. As whites, we screwed up - really, really screwed up. Therefore, we cannot be expected to be involved or treated with equanimity by a culture that we treat unequally.
Posted by: Allison | Jul 17, 2008 2:57:24 PM
Obama will figure this out and solve the problem - he's magical like that!
Posted by: Henry | Jul 17, 2008 2:57:39 PM
I keep hearing it a lot of "Why is it okay, that I, a white person, cannot use that word, but a black person can?" I am a white person, and I will tell you exactly why you can't - we have virtually decimated black families in the US starting with slavery, and thus have excluded ourselves from the right to partake in certain aspects of that culture, because we reflected (and still reflect) a cruel exclusionarity toward black culture. For hundreds of years they weren't allowed to marry, own property, or even enjoy the smallest civil liberties that we take for granted. Even now, blacks are nowhere near being on equal terms with white. People say, oh slavery is over, we can't be held accountable for something that happened so long ago. Well, it's NOT over, and we SHOULD be held accountable. We infected so much insanity toward that group of people that it is lasting to this day. As whites, we screwed up - really, really screwed up. Therefore, we cannot be expected to be involved or treated with equanimity by a culture that we treat unequally.
Posted by: Allison | Jul 17, 2008 2:57:47 PM
So the arguement was over whether it was okay for white folks to say n***. Woopi said only blacks can do that---but ABC censored her everytime she said it. Hmm....
Arent we kind of stepping back in time here, only the roles are reversed? Only whites can ride the front of the bus....only blacks can say that word.
No comprendo (can I say that, not being hispanic??)
Posted by: justsueme | Jul 17, 2008 2:58:31 PM
I'm going to throw up .. after reading Allisons pathetic drivel!
Posted by: Henry | Jul 17, 2008 2:59:45 PM
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