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Dear Sherri Shepherd:
Today I watched you on The View this morning and literally wanted to throw my television along with you in it out of my window. Personally, I admire your career but personally I also find you down right ignorant to be a woman over forty who lacks so much knowledge of self.
Let me affix a few labels to who I am: I'm a middle class working mother, retired veteran, grandmother, sister and a wise woman. I watched with horror when you said that Barbara Waters' use of the word NIGGER left you with disgust, but Whoopi's use of the word didn't have the same connotations. I wanted to scream when I heard this!
I stopped using the word NIGGER when I was six years old after I learned what it meant and never allowed the word to be used in my home. Sherri let me add that it doesn't matter who says the word it has the same connotations and meanings regardless of who calls you one. There's a whole population of our people who think of themselves as less than, inferior and unworthy and the use of the word to refer to another man or woman of AFRIKAN descent as a NIGGER tells me that they think of themselves as less than, unworthy and inferior.
You don't define me, but you sure don't represent a positive image of an intelligent black woman.
Signed a disgusted viewer of The View.
P.S. You never cease to amaze me with your BS.
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