i guess barack obama, he is a racist. stephanie rawlings is a racist. racist. i said the word "thug." everybody is a racist. yet, he's not the only one who thinks that way. npr did an interview with this academic and listen to how he describes the problem with the use of that word "thug." >> well the truth is that thug today is a nominally polite way of using the "n" word. many people suspect it and they are correct. it is a sly way of saying there go those black people ruining things again. >> that barack obama needs to be stopped. >> yeah that barack obama, he went out there and said there go the sly black people ruining things again.