University benefactor and board chairman uses N-word

[nevadamedic]

Story Highlights

N-word "kind of slipped out," university board chairman says
Ralph Papitto apologizes but adds, "What can I do? Kill myself?"
Witness: Papitto irate over discussions to diversify board

Papitto, who has given the school at least $7 million and whose name is on the only law school in Rhode Island, said he had never used the term before.

"The first time I heard it was on television or rap music or something," he told WPRO

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/16/racial.slur.ap/index.html

:lol: Whoops! Hard to believe that this guy is 80 and has never used that term and hard to believe that he has only learned of that word recently because of rap music. :lol::lol::lol::lol:He actually expects us to believe that? :lol:

[5stringJeff]

I thought it was dead!!!

[LiberalNation]

I think people are over-reacting a wee bit here. The old man said a word, he didn't kill anybody. Demanding his name be taken off a school he founded/donated a lot of money to is wrong.

[Yurt]

Apologies only work if you are black like jesse jackson or "black" like bill clinton....

[nevadamedic]

Apologies only work if you are black like jesse jackson or "black" like bill clinton....

You left out Al Sharpton :laugh2:

[LiberalNation]

Those guys all get a lot of flack ya know. Sharpton was even shot and their credibility besides clinton is nill.

[manu1959]

Those guys all get a lot of flack ya know. Sharpton was even shot and their credibility besides clinton is nill.

clinton has credibilty?!....among who? adulterers?

[LiberalNation]

Among dems and a lot of the world. He's a smooth talker and can give a speech. That'll always make you friends.

[nevadamedic]

Among dems and a lot of the world. He's a smooth talker and can give a speech. That'll always make you friends.

That will only get you so far.............

[nevadamedic]

I think people are over-reacting a wee bit here. The old man said a word, he didn't kill anybody. Demanding his name be taken off a school he founded/donated a lot of money to is wrong.

I agree with that, it was a slip of the tongue. I don't see why they overlook all the good someone has done for one slip of the tongue. It's not like he went up there and gave a racist or a hate speech.

[Trinity]

I agree with that, it was a slip of the tongue. I don't see why they overlook all the good someone has done for one slip of the tongue. It's not like he went up there and gave a racist or a hate speech.


Thats the big problem with this country today............ you are expected to be perfect........... one little mistake and god help you........what most people fail to realize is we are all human, therefore not perfect, therefore everyone will make mistakes in their lifetime!

[Trigg]

I think people are over-reacting a wee bit here. The old man said a word, he didn't kill anybody. Demanding his name be taken off a school he founded/donated a lot of money to is wrong.

I agree, give him a break. He more than likely grew up hearing the word.

My mother-in-law still uses the word colored.

[theHawk]

He's a smooth talker and can give a speech. That'll always make you friends.

So was Hitler.

[manu1959]

Among dems and a lot of the world. He's a smooth talker and can give a speech. That'll always make you friends.

like i said.......

[nevadamedic]

Thats the big problem with this country today............ you are expected to be perfect........... one little mistake and god help you........what most people fail to realize is we are all human, therefore not perfect, therefore everyone will make mistakes in their lifetime!

Yup, and then you get judged by bad habits like Smoking or drinking in eccess. etc.

[Yurt]

I agree, give him a break. He more than likely grew up hearing the word.

My mother-in-law still uses the word colored.

You mean like NAAColoredP

[nevadamedic]

You mean like NAAColoredP

:laugh2:

[Trigg]

You mean like NAAColoredP

yep those. It's just the environment and the time people grow up in.

Although I do tend to cringe when she says "be careful when you drive through colored town".

[Hugh Lincoln]

Although I do tend to cringe when she says "be careful when you drive through colored town".

When I was growing up, my grandparents would say things like that. I was trained to call them "racist." (Funny how we look askance at the Soviets and Chinese Communists for training children to denounce their parents as "capitalists" - but with race, we do the same thing...) Then I spent some time in black neighborhoods. I learned that they were right.

I think the real reason blacks are so sensitive about the word "nigger" is that it accurately describes them.

[nevadamedic]

When I was growing up, my grandparents would say things like that. I was trained to call them "racist." (Funny how we look askance at the Soviets and Chinese Communists for training children to denounce their parents as "capitalists" - but with race, we do the same thing...) Then I spent some time in black neighborhoods. I learned that they were right.

I think the real reason blacks are so sensitive about the word "nigger" is that it accurately describes them.

That's uncalled for...............

[Hugh Lincoln]

That's uncalled for...............

Au contraire.

THEY called for it. I just answered.

[nevadamedic]

Au contraire.

THEY called for it. I just answered.

Not all of them, just the trashy gang members.