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WHOOPI, ELISABETH SPAR OVER JESSE'S N-WORD: Things get heated on 'The View' during discussion about Jesse Jackson's gaffe.
*"The View's" Elisabeth Hasselbeck shed tears during a heated exchange with co-host Whoopi Goldberg during a discussion about Jesse Jackson's use of the N-word in his Fox News interview debacle.
Goldberg, who earlier in the broadcast used the N-word repeatedly, argued that the word is only as powerful as a society allows it to be and advocated for using the word to give it new meaning.
Hasselbeck, meanwhile, couldn't understand how society could move forward if blacks, including Whoopi, kept saying the epithet. Her argument was that blacks and whites: "don't live in different worlds."
Whoopi fired back: "We do live in different worlds …It isn't balanced, and we would like it to be, but you have to understand, you have to listen to the fact that we're telling you there are issues, there are huge problems that still affect us."
Elisabeth replied, in tears: "When we live in a world where pop culture then uses that term, and we're trying to get to a place where we feel like we're in the same place, where we feel like we're in the same world...how are we supposed to then move forward if we keep using terms that bring back that pain?"
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In related news, Jesse Jackson has issued an apology for using the N-word, which was uttered while he wore an open microphone during an interview break on Fox News.
After stating that Barack Obama talked down to African-Americans during a Father's Day speech and making a crude remark about the Illinois senator, Fox News confirmed this week that Jackson also used the "N-word."
"There is really no justification for my comments and I hope that the Obama family and the American public will forgive me," said Jackson in a statement issued from Spain, where he's traveling. The Obama campaign has yet to comment.
Related story: FORGET ABOUT APOLOGIZING TO OBAMA: Jackson Should Apologize to Blacks for His N-Word Hypocrisy. Read it here.
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