Jan. 30, 2015 - Louder with Crowder
05:40
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| Let's run this clip of Kevin Costner because it was very surprising to me. | |
| I hate to be one of those guys who ever latches on to a celebrity and says, he's a conservative. | |
| But I think you'll like what Kevin Costner had to say on CNN about Ferguson and about race relations in America. | |
| Fun dip. | |
| Roll clip, please. | |
| Well, it's not that I got there. | |
| I mean, I grew up in a place called Compton. | |
| When I say I grew up, that's a loose term. | |
| I was there for the first eight years of my life. | |
| So my extended family, my immediate family, I was very conscious of these words. | |
| I don't ever remember them being said in anger. | |
| I don't ever remember them being said. | |
| But it doesn't mean they weren't arrogant. | |
| It doesn't mean they weren't callous. | |
| They weren't ignorant, if you will. | |
| People's feelings. | |
| So I saw it. | |
| I used those words. | |
| You've said the N-word? | |
| Sure. | |
| Multiple times. | |
| You have said, anytime someone wants to shut a conversation down, you just invoke race. | |
| It's not the only way you do it, but when you want to shut a conversation down, you also can walk away. | |
| So, I think there's so much going on there that people will miss. | |
| When he says, when Kevin Costner says, sure, I've used the N-word many times in my life, and it was when I was playing with other black athletes, and maybe a majority of Americans have never said it. | |
| What he's saying is, screw you. | |
| What he's saying is, screw you for trying to judge me on having ever used one word. | |
| Because every single person in this country at some point, with the exception of, and I mean single-digit numbers, has said the N-word. | |
| Everyone from my generation. | |
| Anytime I sing along to hip-hop radio, which, by the way, I listen to a lot. | |
| I know it surprises people. | |
| Kanye... | |
| You do not look like a hip-hop fan. | |
| I don't look like a hip-hop fan. | |
| You look like a Maple Leafs fan. | |
| Kanye's College Dropout is one of my favorite albums. | |
| Weird Science is another band I really love. | |
| I love Kid Cudi. | |
| I love hip-hop, okay? | |
| So, to give you an idea, the deposition with Paula Deen, remember that? | |
| Oh, yeah, yeah. | |
| She was a baker or whatever? | |
| Yeah, yeah. | |
| Cook? | |
| Chubby baker looked like Ursula from Little Mermaid. | |
| That one. | |
| She does. | |
| She does. | |
| She was asked, have you ever used the N-word? | |
| That was the really big question, and she said yes. | |
| And there were other things that went on, but she said yes. | |
| Okay, Fundip, I want you to ask me, Stephen Crowder, if I've ever used the N-word. | |
| Stephen Crowder, have you ever used the N-word? | |
| Every single time I sing along to College Dropout, Kanye's arguably best album. | |
| Every single time if I'm in my car. | |
| I don't self-censor if I'm in my car singing along to a hip-hop artist because I know somewhere down the line someone can accuse me of being a racist. | |
| Fundip, be honest. | |
| At some point in your life, you've said that word at least once. | |
| I'm Pat Martin's son, aren't I? But the point that Kevin Costner is making is you can't judge someone by one word without any kind of context. | |
| Anyone in this country who wants to crucify someone for having... | |
| By the way, if you go out there and you actually use the N-word in its proper racist context, kind of like Joe Biden did with Shylocks and the Jews... | |
| I about fainted when I heard that. | |
| He didn't even pause. | |
| He just kept going right on through like it was just part of the everyday vernacular for Joe Biden. | |
| I think it is. | |
| I think it is. | |
| I shouldn't say I don't doubt. | |
| I wouldn't doubt Joe Biden being an actual anti-Semite. | |
| But If you use the N-word in its proper racist context, yeah, that's a terrible thing. | |
| It's a word that shouldn't be used, right? | |
| I think that remembering the early 70s, where I first heard it most commonly used, was in the little... | |
| It was almost like a nursery rhyme. | |
| The kids would run around the neighborhood. | |
| Daniel Boone was a man. | |
| He was a big man. | |
| But the bear was bigger, and so forth. | |
| So he ran like up a tree. | |
| And I had no idea at the time. | |
| What it even meant. | |
| What it was. | |
| All I knew it was in that little song. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I'm like, what is that thing? | |
| That's not a thing. | |
| That's a person. | |
| And I'm like, oh. | |
| Right. | |
| Let me tell you this. | |
| I don't know how much time we have until the break, but we got a few minutes. | |
| Okay, we got two minutes. | |
| Yeah, by the way, everyone can see you, so these signals are no longer covert, so keep them clean. | |
| Don't keep them. | |
| It's the internet. | |
| No one cares. | |
| Hi, everybody. | |
| Okay. | |
| Okay. | |
| I remember when I heard the N-word actually used. | |
| In a racist way. | |
| So I'm not talking about someone's, you know, she ain't messing with no broke. | |
| I'm not talking about singing along to some song. | |
| I'm talking about a guy using it where he was at a Bob Evans. | |
| I was at a Bob Evans in Lynchburg, Virginia. | |
| And he sat down and he said, you know, these filthy N-word. | |
| And I remember my heart about stopped. | |
| I couldn't believe that I had heard someone use that in that way. | |
| And it made me realize just how rare it is. | |
| It made me realize just how rare actual hardcore racism is. | |
| We'll talk about it after the break. |
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