Ya don’t say????

I must go on record and voice that I’ve always enjoyed and been a fan of Bill Maher and his HBO Friday night talk show Real Time With Bill Maher, but his use of the n-word on last Friday’s broadcast was gut wrenching.

The comedian and host, who is “very familiar” with black people and culture (he almost exclusively dates black women), is now apologizing for the word and even sat down to talk with hip-hop pioneer Ice Cube and Georgetown University sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson.

“There is a lot of bullsh*t apologizing in America,” he continued. “So when it’s appropriate, this was appropriate, because I’ll tell you why. Because for black folks, that word, I don’t care who you are, has caused pain. I’m not here to do that.”

“I’m not here to make excuses,” he later added. “But first of all, the word is omnipresent in the culture, so the fact that it was in my mind is, you know…I just don’t want to pretend this is more of a race thing than a comedian thing. Comedians are a special kind of monkey, so to speak. We are a trained thing that tries to get a laugh, that’s what we do, that’s all we are always thinking…and sometimes we transgress a sensitivity point.”

My white friends, this bares repeating: YOU CAN NOT USE THE WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Am I clear? I hope so.