The N Word Revisited

I know there is a reason why I think talk show shrinks should be taken off of the air. Dr. Phil proved some two weeks ago. I didn't have time to launch my grief about this when the show first aired but now that I have a little breathing room, I can at least begin to start. As we all know, the good rev, Jessie Jackson back in the summer decided to just jump completly off the chain using the N-word saying he wanted to castrate presidential candidate Obama. OK so being good producers at the the Dr. Phil show, someone decides, hey, lets devote an hour to the topic. Not a bad thought, but my goodness, the show, if you have time to watch it on youtube, is just completely denigrating to watch as nothing constructive came from this dialogue. In fact, this dialouge could seriously be considered "negrophobic" as I saw black folk and white folk just really at their absolute lowest. -- Note, you can add Dr. Phil to my list of white folk.
To begin, the show is made up of two comedians, Paul Mooney and Cheryle Underwood, one conservative white radio host, and Hill Harper, who in my opinion is being set up to be the next great black acomodationist (if he is not careful). Via satelite is Al Sharpton. Ok, lets get down to business. My chief gripe is that there was nothing intellectual about this conversation. The show boiled down to the double standard to black folk using the N-word why white folk cannot. Silly question. White people who have some sense know that the N-word is assaultiative speech which in turn has the potential to cause them great harm. What to me was missing from this diatribe was some historization of the word and its power of objectification. See, no one bothered to mention the fact that this word was used liberally like the lynch of the antebellum day. I think another part of this program that must be condsidered is the hegemonic control applied to the show