https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yydJ7_6-88E
By now, you’ve heard how President Obama dropped the N-word while speaking to Marc Maron on the WTF podcast. Obama discussed many subjects, but the internet zeroed in on one word. While talking about discrimination and whether or not racism still exists, Obama used the N-word to illustrate a point. The immediate Twitter backlash proves that point. Here is exactly what Obama said:
“The legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination in almost every institution of our lives, you know, that casts a long shadow, and that’s still part of our DNA that’s passed on. We’re not cured of it. Racism. We are not cured of. It’s not just a matter of it not being polite to say n*gger in public. That’s not the measure whether racism still exists or not. It’ s not just a matter of overt discrimination. We have; societies don’t overnight completely erase everything that happened 200 or 300 years prior.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest issued a follow-up statement, saying Obama has “no regrets” about using the n-word: “He does not. The president’s use of the word and the reason he used the word could not be more apparent.”
Twitter is running wild with reactions to Obama’s choice of words. Here are several of the best freak-out (and freak-outs about freak-outs) examples:
Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States (to use the n-word).
— Neal Brennan (@nealbrennan) June 22, 2015
Obama isn't the first President to use the N word just the first one that wasn't referring to one of his slaves.
— Eliel Cruz (@elielcruz) June 22, 2015
White folks more mad at Obama and @deray than they are at Dylann Roof. This country is irrevocably broken.
— Imani Gandy (Orca’s Version) ⚓️ (@AngryBlackLady) June 22, 2015
https://twitter.com/BreadFoster/status/613008898736422912
obama: "let's talk about structural racism, not just bad words"
national media: "OMG HE SAID THE BAD WORD!!!!"
— Simon Vozick-Levinson (@simonwilliam) June 22, 2015
PRO TIP: The fact that President Obama used the n-word does not mean it’s ok for you to do the same, white teenager in a Aeropostale t-shirt
— Dr. Bucky Isotope, Astrologist, IQ 188 (@BuckyIsotope) June 22, 2015
Obama said the "N-word" on a podcast?? Guess we know who the REAL racist is now!!
(It's my uncle Kevin)
— rob delaney (@robdelaney) June 22, 2015
https://twitter.com/brockwilbur/status/612026871660687360
https://twitter.com/JennyJohnsonHi5/status/613011775722655744
https://twitter.com/Ethan_Booker/status/612982954877431808
imagining a nation where #Charleston leads to robust national debate about racism & violence….Or just faux outrage about Obama saying a word
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) June 22, 2015
https://twitter.com/Atom_Murray/status/613033356146520064
https://twitter.com/Russian_Starr/status/613033830606180352
https://twitter.com/MrFungilicious/status/613031287855648768
President Obama was being a professor again. Enough said. https://t.co/Bt477XOMDR
— Suzanne (@SuzanneThomas43) June 22, 2015
Obama obviously used the N-word because he's an uncouth racist who hates black people and doesn't care who knows it and is in the KKK duh.
— Mark Stepro (@markstepro) June 22, 2015
(via Marc Maron & Time)
