Afriscam-American - Tim Allen talks the n-word, disliking kids and the work of standup comedy

Why is the language we use now determined by the likes of Jesse Jackson, Michael Eric Dyson, Melissa Harris-Perry and Rap "Artistes"? m/r

Tim Allen talks the n-word, disliking kids and the work of standup comedy | Tampa Bay Times
Eric Deggan - 7-25-13

Tim Allen wants to talk about the n-word.

He doesn't want to use that often-derided euphemism, either. He says the word itself with a directness that hearkens to his self-professed comedy heroes, Richard Pryor and Lenny Bruce.

But it also comes close to sounding like a well-meaning white guy who may not understand how tenuous the ground he's walking on could become. "(The phrase) 'the n-word' is worse to me than n-----,' " said Allen, who spoke to me on a day when the controversy ignited over Paula Deen's admitted use of that slur in 1986.

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