Roger Stone uses racial slur on radio show
The New York Times,
by
Aimee Ortiz
&
Marie Fazio
Original Article
Posted By: Folsomguy,
7/19/2020 1:57:32 PM
During a live radio show Saturday, Roger Stone, the political operative who was spared a prison sentence this month by his friend President Donald Trump, used a racial slur while speaking with the host, who is Black.
Stone was speaking on “The Mo’Kelly Show,” a program based at a Los Angeles radio station and hosted by Morris W. O’Kelly, known as Mo’Kelly.
On the show, O’Kelly questioned the role that Stone’s relationship and proximity to the president played in the commutation of his sentence.
The host asked: “There are thousands of people treated unfairly daily,
Cue the tattle tale marxists!
Cue Aimee!
Cue Marie
Slime that Trump supporter!
Slime him good!
That’s their m.o.
STFU!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 7/19/2020 2:11:43 PM (No. 483874)
Quick! Tell me what he said because I want to use it too!!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Highlander 7/19/2020 2:12:28 PM (No. 483875)
Better than the other word beginning with an “n”
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
john56 7/19/2020 2:12:32 PM (No. 483876)
When is the United Negro College Fund going to get rid of its offensive name?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
AGGW 7/19/2020 2:13:34 PM (No. 483878)
I’m with op.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 7/19/2020 2:19:34 PM (No. 483882)
Keeping track of all the offensive words these days is as difficult as keeping up with all the new genders that have popped up in the last 5 years.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Fitzroy 7/19/2020 2:24:07 PM (No. 483888)
Oh, please! Negro is not a term that was used "briefly for part of the 1960s." It was used universally as the only polite way of referring to people of African descent for centuries. I grew up in the south in the 50s and 60s and the real racists I knew were incapable of pronouncing negro. Of course the NYT staff would not know any of that history or care since they use their privilege to change the language every day.
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Let's face it.....unless these days you are personally offended, you do not exist. During most of my eighty-plus years, Negro was the correct and polite term.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 7/19/2020 2:49:32 PM (No. 483899)
Stupid and ignorant Caucasians. You people are so hard-headed!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bighambone 7/19/2020 2:55:16 PM (No. 483902)
You would have to be ignorant of history and far out ultra sensitive to consider that term a racial slur. Stone is an old man, in his time that term was the accepted term to use when describing people of African-American ancestry. Who knows, in fifty years the term African-American itself may be considered to be a racial slur by the ultra sensitive of that future era. In my mind this is just another partisan political attempt to somehow link President Trump to a racial attack and slur through his supposed friend Stone.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 7/19/2020 3:02:21 PM (No. 483905)
#7 has it right. However, I think the complaint was that Stone was off-handedly categorizing him as someone too irrational, bigoted, and stupid to argue with. Negro is a perfectly good term, anthropologically and scientifically speaking. Apparently every term used to describe black/colored/Negro people eventually takes on negative stereotypical connotations. That's their problem, not mine.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 7/19/2020 3:03:44 PM (No. 483907)
LIes. The usual fare from NYT.
Negro is not any kind of a slur. It is, like Caucasian is the name for the white race, Negro is the proper name for the black race.
Sorry, you deciding that this is a slur on any random day, and making that claim, does NOT make it a fact.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Miceal 7/19/2020 3:09:04 PM (No. 483911)
My Spanish Teacher Wife just laughed out loud...
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
weirdone 7/19/2020 3:17:30 PM (No. 483916)
Ah yes, and all white people are racist due to the color of their skin, that is a fact not a slur, right.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 7/19/2020 3:21:37 PM (No. 483920)
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy always used the word "Negro." "African-American" was not spoken during his lifetime.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
volksford 7/19/2020 3:25:24 PM (No. 483924)
Lots of slurs at the market...Frijoles Negros everywhere !
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
spacer 7/19/2020 3:46:14 PM (No. 483936)
It was a garbled messed up interview. Stone denies he said negro. He has a long and strong support of black proAmerican legislation. This is a fabrication, and the NYTs knows it.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
6079 Smith, W 7/19/2020 4:02:02 PM (No. 483940)
In my 67 years, it has been Negro/Colored as in United Negro College Fund and the Negro Leagues in baseball and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, then Black, as in Black Power; then Afro-American, then African American, now black again. It's hard to keep up.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/19/2020 4:08:06 PM (No. 483942)
Part of the "game" the black-fricans play is to change their nomenclature every decade or so. First it was "Colored" then it was "Negro" then it became "African-American" and now it's "Black," and of course on the street it's, "N--gah." Among us 'boring' whites, we simply prefer the term, "Americans."
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 7/19/2020 4:18:13 PM (No. 483949)
Born in the deep South in 1942 and lived here all my life and negro and 'colored person' were the polite terms. The 'N" word was used by low-class whites and negros and we were forbidden to use it. To a lot of uneducated and poor whites, it wasn't really a pejorative just what they had heard growing up, a simple description. Nowadays, if the cancel mob finds out that your late 2nd cousin used the word in 1952, they will try to get you fired.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
coyote 7/19/2020 4:24:33 PM (No. 483954)
Negro is simply the Spanish word for black. Since the Spanish (and Portuguese) were into the trans-Atlantic centuries before slavery came ashore at Savannah, the word came with it.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
pensom2 7/19/2020 5:06:56 PM (No. 483988)
I agree with all posters above who suggest that "Negro" is not a racial slur. However, after all he has been through, Roger Stone is a nut to even take calls from interviewers--of any stripe or color. His foolishness and braggadocio is what got him into trouble in the first place.
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Funny Story: Our university employed a Black would-be historical novelist who had her characters using "African-American" for themselves in the 19th century. As I recall one of them was the wife of an ex-slave.
Is it surprising that NYT writers are as illiterate as most everyone else in their generation, including English faculty?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 7/19/2020 5:37:00 PM (No. 484025)
There is no such thing as a racial slur except in the minds of those who choose to label it as one.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Historybuff 7/19/2020 5:37:39 PM (No. 484026)
Don’t tell them what it says on the Goya bean can on the Spanish side!
Elon Musk is still my favorite African American.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Tianne 7/19/2020 5:44:44 PM (No. 484027)
Negro is literally the Spanish word for black.
Marcus Garvey wrote, "If we were Negroes when we were down under the heel of oppression then we will be Negroes when we are up and liberated from such thraldom."
Mr. Stone uttered no slur.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
bpl40 7/19/2020 5:56:46 PM (No. 484034)
At this rate Negro will become the N word.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
sciteach 7/19/2020 6:30:32 PM (No. 484059)
Since when is Negro a racist slur? I guess Martin Luther King was a black hating racist since he used the term all the time.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Yuban 7/19/2020 6:31:29 PM (No. 484061)
Would they prefer animal?
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
anniebc 7/19/2020 8:43:00 PM (No. 484164)
At least he didn't tell the host he wasn't lowercase black, NYT.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
lakerman1 7/19/2020 8:49:22 PM (No. 484167)
Negro is a racist slur? Since when?
Has anyone told those people at the United Negro College Fund?
Black Lives Matter, in Spanish, is Las Vidas NEGRAS importan.
Negro is Spanish for Black.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
ronniethek 7/19/2020 8:58:46 PM (No. 484182)
Who gives a rats arse.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/19/2020 9:06:51 PM (No. 484191)
The New Jerk Slimes, making common words offensive Just because they can...
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
msjena 7/19/2020 9:09:38 PM (No. 484194)
Negro is a slur?
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
smokincol 7/19/2020 9:20:47 PM (No. 484199)
didn't read the article and won't read the article. reason? NYT
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
fourpmfox 7/19/2020 9:56:40 PM (No. 484228)
Please show me the similar condemnation of The United Negro College Fund
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
JimBob 7/21/2020 1:04:46 AM (No. 485398)
Guys..... Guys....Guys..... (and Ladies too!)
It's the Lyin' Times.
Whaddya expect? The TRUTH?
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I have always thought that this word was a scientific one and certainly not a slur. When did it change?