if we use the word like nigger, like you're a nigger. whatever. like, what up, nigger, they're going to say that, too. they're going to pick it up and continue using it. >> it's not going anywhere. please pass the microphone down here. >> i just want to say also, you know, it's kind of going to your comment and what she said earlier about the kids. >> emulating the adults? >> yes. if kids hear that word in rap songs and hear people saying what up my -- >> n word? >> at least if they read it in a book like this, at least they'll understand what the real meaning behind it was. kid kids these days don't know what the real meaning is, because they use it throw it around and use it randomly. if maybe they understand that it was used against their ancestors. >> the historical context is important. no, thank you. very good point. we can't read it without it. when we move a little further into theater -- hold on. it's coming down to you. we talk about theater, one of the most popular plays in american theater is a raisin in the sun, 1959. censorship alrea

if we use the word like nigger, like you're a nigger. they're going to say that, too. they're going to pick it up and continue using it. >> it's not going anywhere. please pass the microphone down here. then we'll come back to octavia. >> i just want to say also, you know, it's kind of going to your comment and what she said earlier about the kids. >> emulating the adults? >> yeah. if kids only hear that song in rap songs and hear it from people saying, what up my -- >> "n" word? >> at least if they read it in a book like this, they're going to understand what the real meaning behind it was. kids these days don't know what the real meaning is behind it. so they just throw it around and use it randomly. maybe if they understand that it came from suffering from their ancestors, they'll stop using it like a -- >> it ties into what we're saying. the historical context is important. very good point. the historical context is very important, we can't read it without it. when we move a little further into theater -- it's coming to you, hold on -- when we talk about theater, o

i never saw the a nigger sign, i never saw whites only sign. if i went to the back of the bus, it was because i wanted to. it wasn't because i had no choice. there was no sign on the bus that said black behind this line. thanks to the works of others i never had to experience that. i experienced close enough to have have marched for important causes. and for me, the memory of that time even though it is not my own is still alive. now we're several generations from that. it's easy to forgetting what it costs people not to have the that word used on thempy collect black memorabilia, little dolls that show black people as caricatures of themselves. big smiling faces eating watermelon with the big sausage lips and outrageous nose, fright wig hair. i collect that for a very specific reason. the idea is the same reason i teach, you should not forget the past. there will come a time, and i believe it, that's why i collect. there will come a time when all of those things are gone and people will pretend it never existed. this is the more severe reason

nigger is still used and indian is still used. by the way, deborah, can you tell me what they're changing the word to? what are they changing the "n-word" to? >> slave. >> slave. as if that somehow is less offensive. did you tell me the word slave was more offensive than you thought the word nigger? you thought the word slave was more offensive? [ inaudible ] >> because of your? [ inaudible ] which is? >> hatian. >> thank you. it's important to have an appreciate when they change the word, do you think this is the end of it? will we be changing the word again because someone is going to say slave is too offensive, okay? let us think about what probably one of the most interesting uses of language in our society. the names of sports teams. the braves. the indians. the huskies, we already talked about that. you guys know that's going to be trouble. yankees. not so bad. university of massachusetts where i attended as college. the name of the team was redman, native american. it was a time when people decided that that's too offensive

didn't you tell me you thought slave was more offensive than the word nigger? you said you thought the word slave was more offensive? [ inaudible ] >> because of europe? which is -- thank you. it's important to have an appreciation when they change the word. do you think this is the end of it? will they be changing the word again? because someone is going to say that slave is too offensive. let us think about probably one of the most interesting uses of language in our society. the names of sport teams, the braves, the indians, the huskies -- we already talked about that. i'm not talking about that again because that's going to be trouble. the yankees. that's not too bad. the university of massachusetts where i attended for undergraduate, the name of the team was the red men. native american, okay? there was a time when they thought it was too offensive. they changed it to -- anybody know the name of the team now? the patriots. actually they call them the minute men. even when they changed them from red men to minute men, i thought, what are they eventually goi

we talks about all in the family" where they used nigger, wop, kike. because it sounded like another word, they didn't come after you at all. nowadays it becomes harder to explore these as language particularly in literature. >> speaking of all in the family, me and little brother used to watch that every single night. i didn't realize that it was offensive until i was like -- >> i was just thinking about all the in family". me and my brother when we were little would watch it every single night. i didn't realize that it was offensive and that they were using offensive words till i got a lot older. >> what's interesting, a lot of people when you use the word a whole lot, you sometimes forget people may find it offensive. yeah? okay. we talked about other words that are used. we talked about other forms of censorship. it's not just about race. sometimes it's about sexuality. sometimes it's about your orientation, your sexual orientation, things we need to figure out exactly where we're going to go in terms of how we use language. let's continue on this.

. >> so orcas are like field niggers and dogs and cats are the house niggers?ld look the other way when it came to her dog. but what about the countless exploited creatures featured in peta's calendars and posters? someone had to act on behalf of the animals so i called my lawyer. >> i'm hereby serving with you a complaint. it alleges that peta uses the images of some animals without having first obtained their consent and without any pay of any kind. >> you're basically being served on behalf of all the animals for royalties and back pay of $50 million. which even she acknowledges is a small price to pay. >> well, yeah. what you're doing is you're encouraging people to think beyond this lawsuit. it's a good thing. >> and it turns out peta will have to look well beyond their lawsuit since a california district judge threw out the case. while they vow to continue their fight, i'll continue my fight for the animals using everything i've learned. (applause). (cheers and applause). >> jon: wyatt (cheers and applause). >> jon: welcome back, my guest tonight is a uni

we have the reason for using the "n" word instead of the word nigger. he said how am i supposed to know that. if you stop and think about how many times we change our language for fear of offending someone. part of our discussion will be about that as well. we have said during the 1970s and '60s was used with fair regularly and no one was offended. these are kpaexamples of open derogatory terms. no one came after you because it sounded like another word. now days it backs harder to explore the words. >> we used to watch that every single night. i didn't realize it was offensive. i was just thinking about "all in the family". me and my brother would watch it every single night. i didn't realize it was offensive or they were using offensive words until i got older. >> when you use the word a whole lot, you forget that there are people who may find it offensive. yeah? we talked about other words that are used. we talked about other forms of sensorship. it's not just about race but sometimes it's sexuality. all those are things that we need to figure out wh

tell be thin, fine, attention nigger mermaids, chains like hooks and sifrpgs are didy don't bleed into the sea the stains won't watch out we ain't responsible for your mess. the management. there is company, can't remember. there is company. the stains will not wash out. [applause] >> he wasn't dragged death in a quick casual way. they had fun with his body they chained him to the back of the car did fish tails. forensic evidence suggests his body came lose and some of the men confessed and rechained him after rolling back over him to get him. most of us heard about this tragedy. something we don't hear is because dragged to death we assume he was dragged like this. see that way chained to the truck it's not true. he was not dragged like that he was dragged like this. chained the back of the truck watching the road behind him. this poem is called big thicket jasper, texas. a crack is a buck shot. big thickel. crack, headlights staggering home. the road kills. crack, big thicket. the sticks, drink, drink, headlight stagger in the road. creek, crack, stick broke light kills. big thickel.

and call me "nigger, you ugly, black." just angry. just angry. >> reporter: the shy, little girl planted her feet on the ground and fought for herself. she was voted most talented in high school. and ultimately won a coveted space at juilliard. now, at 46, she has a big career, a happy marriage, and a nearly 2-year-old baby girl, genesis. >> if she saw this dress right here, i can tell you right now, she'd go, nice. >> reporter: this shopping trip to a chic west hollywood baby store, about as far from her own early life as you can get. >> i love my family. i'm very close with my family. but poverty does something to you. it seeps into your spirit and your mind. it's almost -- it's a mentality that can -- it can get the best of you. it can almost strangle you. i remember that i used to pray a lot when i was a kid. and i would pray. i would say, god, if you -- if you really love me, you would take me away. and i would open my eyes. and i would still be in my house. you know? but no phone, electricity cut off or whatever. but now, at 46,

nigger street. 1937. mcintosh street the sign reads like the apple. but not red delicious red but like red on red eyes gravy on grit the and stop lights and green and yellow. and red like those powders and syrups kept behind the counter at blocks pharmacy. red. and red like the stripe on richard's barb bar pole and the stitches on button holes on over alls of those coming to down on saturday. solid red at the blue moon and red like the eyes of the late staying patrons on sunday mornings. and in church the red of the edge of white pages in a black bound bible coming together, closing. red as a congregation rises. [applause]. >> this references a lynching. the lynching of 2 couples in monroe, georgia occurred july 25, 1946. it's now referred to has the morris ford lynching. insurance man, 1946. silos you might not be here april. ain't none of us never promise said tomorrow. if you died you would need a will. that way you control your nickel when you are gone. get your ducks in a row you might not be here come april. yeah, your policy is up-to-date and w

did not make him a nigger. if there is some kind of god and these -- both mays's mother is the deep spiritual one and thurman's grandmother are these men's mother, there is something about the personality. so that experience comes out. they resonate to the intellectual forms but it comes out of their lives. >> the quote, luther, that you gave from thurman, the truth is in religion is in religion because it's true and is not true because it's in the religion. do i have that right? >> not true just because it is in a particular religion, yeah. >> i would guess that both mays and dr. king would agree with the quote. >> yes. >> so connect how you see their interfaith this the discussions we have for interfaith is also a discussion going on about multi fai faith. interfaith is something different. and the search for being comfortable with the particular as i'm searching or accepting the particular but recognizing that the goal is universal and i guess still with regard to my particular circumstance and particular fa

through the lebanese border the syrian national council for instance they are supported directly by the nigger such goes in david taylor by the turkish government and by the qataris and there's also the free syrian army which heaver that i would see all by those analysts in europe see that it's not meet and it's not an army it's a bunch of the realist infiltrated by people feel. that we salafi jihadists so decide if there is already there now this is a souped up shadow war build with the civil war which the only people who will lose you know this are this so-called syrian people that once in a while. muster pieces of the democracy or mediocrities like cover and suckers you refer to that was asia times correspondent pepe escobar talking to us from bangkok . latvia set to decide whether russian should become the country's second official language authorities claim a threatens national integrity despite russians making up a third of the population and as alexander reports this referendum is just the first step to ending decades long discrimination. lady from russian minority says his country's go

>> certainly the wind is bigger -- nigger i get calls and emails every week about that book. the longest book is called interracial intimacy and is about the way in which the law has regulated interracial intimacy with adoption, marriage i probably have had the most fun writing that book but i have had fun debt rating all of them it is a great privilege to frankly make a living as a professional student and that is what i am. >> host: where did you grow up? >> guest: washington d.c. born in south carolina at my parents for refugees from the jim crow south so their children could have more opportunity. group in washington d.c. and attended a fabulous high-school, the most important schooling experience i have had the a school for all boys and from there went to princeton i have been very lucky. i have led a very privileged life. >> host: next call from professor kennedy comes from of the land. you are on book tv's. >> caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i have two questions. barack obama and other white father was black but nobody talks about his white man's. w

historic event five and a half thousand tons of artificial snow has been used to construct a track niggers making stadium in central moscow but with temperatures currently below twenty degrees celsius some of the athletes have decided to skip the event however defending champions dario colonia of switzerland on poland just pavel chut will be competing well russia have a solid sprint squad and the aim for success. in the high leg for sprint standings leader alexa a touch of health. finally to women's figure skating where russia has never claimed a single olympic gold medal however with two years to go until the so she went to games as plenty of hope that run will soon end audi's rob about danny and has more about one of the most promising russians in the sports ugliness son of a cop. ladies singles this is the only discipline in which an olympic gold medal has eluded such a big figure skating nation like russia added insult nicholas is one of the few will bring major hope for the moment anticipated ladies in the sport first of all in sochi twenty four teams at the age of fifteen feet becaus

very small, and he was no whit bigger, and so i smiled, but he poked out his tongue, and called me, "nigger" i saw the whole of baltimore from may until december. of all the things that happened there that's all that i remember." >> and yet there's something in this man's spirit that could write the next poem, "to john keats, poet, at spring time" and celebrating keats, of another century, of another race, of another time, beauty. >> uh-huh. >> "i cannot hold my peace, john keats. there never was a spring like this. it is an echo that repeats my last year's song and next year's bliss." >> remarkable juxtaposition. >> yeah, and in essence, saying -- calling john keats his brother, you know? his poetical brother. >> one of the things that comes through is that the hyphenated america arrives in your anthology. you know, from talking about -- you quote alain locke's famous essay on "the new negro," you know, and he uses that word over and again, at one time it was a prominently used word, negro. and then you refer to it by the end of the anthology, it's african american. >> african american. >>

"zoom in, zoom in, put that nigger to sleep." you heard the people saying in the background. so that goes to show you the mindset. 'cause i know ameena, she's spending a lot of time with the family still. they trying to fix his face so they can have a open casket. i heard some interviews from the young brothers. they say they don't know why the hell they fight. they just hate each other. the guys from altgeld gardens, they were attending carver school, which was turned into a military school. a lot of guys didn't want to go to a military school, so they transferred the guys to fenger. so now you got these guys coming from a whole other neighborhood. >> when they laid there and closed down carver high school, and started letting these guys get to school any kind of way they can, riding on the bus, walking, or what have you, you left it to them that they had to defend themselves. and the ville is fighting altgeld gardens. they've been doing that since the '60s, man. >> we up against history. >> yeah, and we got to respect history,