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[Michael Richards], who played Kramer on TV's "Seinfeld," spewed a nigger-laden diatribe at a Los Angeles comedy club in 2006. And in 2007, shock jock [Don Imus] infamously called the Rutgers University women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos."
To help blunt the rising public media criticism, hiphop luminaries like Russell Simmons, the co-founder and former CEO of Def Jam Records-the label on which Nas now records-launched a campaign urging radio stations and other media not to air the words, "bitch," "ho" and "nigger."Nas told MTV News that he chose the title to help weaken the word. "We're taking power from the word," he said. "You see how white boys ain't mad at 'cracker' cause it don't have the same sting as 'nigger?' I want 'nigger' to have less meaning than cracker.'"See the full content of this document
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Nas: Whose Word Is This?
THE RAPPER NAS has thrust the word "nigger" back into the limelight by making it the title of his new album. Such a move seems improbably provocative given the increased public scrutiny hip hop has received recendy in the wake of the Michael ...
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