{"id":3997,"date":"2007-09-06T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3997"},"modified":"2017-11-24T16:29:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T22:29:34","slug":"well-its-a-single-standard-at-least","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/06\/well-its-a-single-standard-at-least\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, It’s A Single Standard At Least"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not that it’s a good standard, but a black comedian has been censured for using the word nigger<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A standup routine by black comedian Eddie Griffin was stopped after he repeatedly used the N-word, a magazine’s spokesman said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Griffin, who has appeared in movies such as “Undercover Brother” and “Date Movie” and the TV show “Malcolm & Eddie,” was performing at a Black Enterprise magazine event in the Miami suburb of Doral on Friday when he was cut off after using profanities and the N-word, said Andrew Wadium, a spokesman for the publication.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So I guess the whole black people say it and nothing happens<\/i> canard is done, so everyone who used it instead of saying what’s the point in taking offense at a single word so much that it becomes a magic word?<\/i> ought to feel vindicated. But they won’t. And they shouldn’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not that it’s a good standard, but a black comedian has been censured for using the word nigger: A standup routine by black comedian Eddie Griffin was stopped after he repeatedly used the N-word, a magazine’s spokesman said Wednesday. Griffin, who has appeared in movies such as “Undercover Brother” and “Date Movie” and the TV […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17849,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions\/17849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}