Topic : 09/12 The N-Word Debate

Dr.Phil  I am a loyal viewer of your and was very disturbed by your viewing of this show.  While you stood to the side and let some very militant blacks run rampant on your stage.  To view something this racially one sided at this time I find strangely unfortunate and I wonder about your reason.  Was there an attempt to make whites afraid of blacks.  If not than you failed because that is exactly what  you did.  You could have found reasonable blacks and whites to discuss this but instead you aired extreme militants.  This close to a historic election I wonder about your motives.  Your credibility took a direct hit with this one.  Remove me from your list I am no longer a viewer.

I am 61 years ol, grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles and never experienced racisim.  I wasn't taught it, I just never knew about it.  I learned about it when I married a militarty man and lived all over the place.  When I learned that a friend of mine from Florida would not get on a bus if the driver was black, it made me laugh.  I have never heard of anything so ridiculous.  Then my black neighbors told me what they had gone thorough when growing up, couldn't try on clothes they wanted to buy, etc.  I was mad.  I know my mind, and If I had been born black and lived in their area I would be dead.  Now I am a very proud and happy gramma of a black grandson and he considers himswelf black.  I try to teach him all I can about his history, try to keep him from going into the gangs (white or black or hispanic, asian).  I want him to carry himself with pride, be smart, make the right choices and tell him how it is.  He has a great sense of humor, manners, and he does not even think about "what" his friends are.  I see lots of people looking at him then looking at me and I know it is because he is so handsome, how could it possibly be anything else?

Children live what they learn.

Please do not make it seem as though whites got treated unfair. This show was about the N word. This is really a black issue so why would you want whites to dominate this discussion? Blacks are the most poorly treated minority in the world so the least you could do is be a little understanding that we get a forum to discuss the N word. Is that too much to ask for? You wanted more white representation from the show? Did you want "equal" representation? Forget about it. Let us have something. Let us have a voice. Is it often that black people get to discuss such a topic openly in front of millions of people? Dr. Phil did a great thing and I commend him for it. Truth be told, whites dominate this country. Whites dominate the media, dominate the police force, dominate the political positions, dominate the judicial positions, and much more, so try to be a little compassionate for us  because we don't have much and we don't get these opportunities often.

        I take it that you were hoping for a more in depth reply? I agree because hate against hate will cause problems, and the countries economic, employment, immigration, and housing problems aren't going to help any.

       It is just frustrating that I have yet to find any apology over that remark. It was a downright act to cause problems. Considering, many people, myself included, are only waiting for specifics before I cast my vote for Presidency. Obama already won my vote during the primary, but I simply expect more to come out of a Presidential Campaign than inciting hate between ethnic backgrounds.