now, if generations of my people had been systematically, categorically discriminated against and some of them lynched while mobs of people screamed kill the honky, good-bye cracker, that would be different for me. the narrative around the n word carries so much evil attached to it that for many of us in the majority we have a hard time connecting to the depth of the pain. that word has been used to demoralize, dehumanize, to paralyze and sometimes kill groups of people and from what i know, from my friends and family who are people of color around the country, when they hear that word, it cuts to the bone. our conversation did not end there. much more right after a quick break.
argument is it s comparing to be on point with this case, it s like comparing skittles and handgun. they don t have the same power. is he right? we took the words to the people on the street. they are both derogatory and racist. the feeling i get inside from when i hear that word is different. it s a psychological thing. if someone were to call me a honky or cracker, i don t think it would offend me as much as this word offends other people from my experience. if you hear other people saying this word or this word as opposed to that word, this still offends you more? yes. even if it s a black person calling a white person those words? yes. i m being completely honest. honesty might be the answer says a professor who says he shouldn t be censoring this snl clip. spade. honky, honky.
privilege, now power associated with it. no few generations of my people have been systematically discriminated against and some of them lynched while mobs of people scream kill the honky, good-bye cracker. that would be different for me. the narrative around the n word carries so much evil attached to it that for many of us in the m majority, we have a hard time connecting to the depth of the pain. that word has been used to demoralize, dehumanize, and kill groups of people. from i know from my friends and
wolf, it s very interesting. and before i even get started, i want to warn our viewers and to the adults at home that you re about to hear language that many people may find offensive. and if you have children in the room, you may want to get the children out of it. but wolf, in order to do a story about language and whether or not it s offensive, we had to not bleep the words that we re going to talk about. before we went out on the streets, we had some of the words that were used. this word, cracker, also the word honky and some other words that i won t say on camera, but you ll hear in this story. to find out about whether paula deen, whether it s okay for paula deen to use those words or whether it s okay for trayvon martin to use it when he s referencing george zimmerman. here s what we found out. take a listen. this classic saturday night live sketch ran unbleeped in 1975. jungle bunny. pecker wood! bird head. cracker!
think it would offend me as much as this word offends other people. from my experience. reporter: and if you hear other people saying this word or this word as opposed to that word, this still offends you more? yes. reporter: even if it s a black person calling a white person those words? yes. reporter: someone saying the n word i m being completely honest, yes. reporter: honesty just might be the answer, according to columbia university professor marc lamont hill, who says we shouldn t be sensoring this snl clip. honky honky! nigger. dead honky. i think we hurt ourselves as a community, as a country, as a group of people really trying to improve the racial circumstances in this nation by running from these words, by sensoring these words and by simply throwing people away as soon as they use them. reporter: so, it is interesting, because most of the people i spoke to, the experts and the people on the street, say we shouldn t be looking at