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April 25, 2006
Using The "N Word"
Posted at April 25, 2006 11:55 AM in Race Relations .
Last night, UPN's "All of Us" aired an episode entitled "The N Word," The "N Word" was used as a "stand-in for our complicated feelings about race. It puts it out there in all its conflicted, infuriating, funny forms and forces everyone to confront it," reports AccessAtlanta.com, a division of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The young 7-year old son, James, played by Khamani Griffin, says the "N-word" barely five minutes into the episode. James tells his white friend "Go fish, n_____" after playing cards with his friends. Neither Bobby nor his friend understands the meaning of the word or its history, but the reactions "of the racially diverse grown-ups … range from stunned silence to bemused acceptance to barely controlled outrage."
"All of Us" was created by power couple Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith. Last night's show was Inspired by an incident from series writer Royale Watkins' life, when his son asked him about using the racial epithet. "After I picked myself up off the floor," said Watkins, who is black, "it made me go back to all the innocent times I had inadvertently exposed him to that word," in rap music or overheard conversations. [Read More]
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