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Darnell: BB let me use N-word too

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BIG Brother’s Darnell has told how he escaped with using the racist N-word — just like Coolio.

The black albino housemate said it on camera THREE times but was never reprimanded.

Rapper Coolio, 45, used it during a chat with Ben Adams in the new series of Celebrity Big Brother on Saturday.

Fearing yet ANOTHER race row bosses did not screen the exchange.

Darnell, who came fifth in BB last year, said: “I was warned against using the N-word after using it a lot in auditions. I think I said it by accident three times in the show, but very quietly.

“I said it to myself more than anything but I was scared I’d get into trouble.” But he said if producers heard him, they appeared to turn a deaf ear to the word.

Gangsta’s Paradise rapper Coolio, 45, used the word while describing an argument he’d had in a dream. The African-American’s comment rocked producers of the show — rested last year after 50,000 viewers complained at Jade Goody branding Shilpa Shetty, a Bollywood megastar, ‘Shilpa Poppadom’ in 2007.

Emily Parr was ejected in 2007’s non-celeb BB for using the N-word to black housemate Charley Uchea. This year bosses promised a zero-tolerance approach to bad behaviour from the housemates and pulled 24-hour coverage to maintain more editorial control.

A BB spokesman said: “Coolio used the N-word in his descriptive retelling to Ben.

“This was immediately flagged to senior production staff at Endemol and C4.

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“After reviewing the footage, where Ben clearly took no offence from the word and no other housemates heard it, the footage was not broadcast in case it caused offence to viewers.

“Given the context in which Coolio used the word, no further action was taken. However, constant monitoring for any unacceptable language is ongoing. Big Brother is always prepared to remind all housemates of the rules when necessary.”

Darnell added: “What Coolio said was in context, to me that’s fine. Hip-hop is the music of our generation. But it’s difficult because when it’s used in music it means white people can’t sing it, but black people can, which is unfair.”

Source, The Sun

This whole N word thing in society in general, is really becoming annoying. I mean, when its used in a malicious/insulting way, everyone knows it. Its obvious. I really dont get why only black people can say it. Its a word that was negative, and recycled into a term of empowerment. I use it all the time, and a lot of my white friends, back in the US, use it around me, with no harm or offense. O course they dont do it around everybody, knowing how people perceive it. And that just suckks. Like when we wanna say, something like: Thats my main man! Thats my dog/pal. A lot of times we say, thats my (N word). ANd I say it to my friends that are white as well. I really think everyone should say it if they feel, but its always obvious when its an insult. If its universallly used, it will not even be a racial slurr anymore. Which was the whole point of flipping its meaning!

yes this is getting ridiculous....i mean its used all the time in everyday life (in non-demeaning ways) so why cant it be used in a situation like this? there are differences of course.....if someone says to a close friend "whats up my N" i could see it as a term of endearment, meaning they are close to one another. its when someone says "look at that N over there" when it gets offensive and WAYYYY over the line.

Dont get me wrong, in no way am i defending racism because it is one of the worts things on this planet, but i agree things have went too far. Most people who are with the updated culture can realize the difference between a playful & a derogatory use of the word....its the prudes & a-holes of the world who cant see the difference, and they are also the ones who keep the debate going.

i dont know, i dont want to fuel some big debate here, but thats my honest thoughts on the situation....its just getting too over the top imho.

What a load of bullshit. Emily Parr didn't mean the N-Word in a racist context, yet she was ejected??? :conf2:.