The Dr. Laura N-word controversy hasn't died down as of yet, as blog after website, after tweet has chimed in on this. But the one person no one has talked to is the "black guy" who's Dr. Laura's close personal friend. So much so that he says Dr. Laura helped him through a difficult divorce that even her own staff did not know she was involved in helping him get over.
"Dr Laura is not, has not been, and will never be a racist," Mike Paul said in a conversation we had just 21 minutes ago from this writing. Mike Paul is the "black guy" shown here and in the the last two blog posts Zennie62 has posted on the "Dr Laura N-word" issue.
Mike Paul is the head of MGP & Associates, a New York-based public relations firm that has Dr. Laura listed as one of the firms his firm has worked with. While MGP & Associates is not currently working with Dr. Laura, the two remain close friends. The photo of the two of them was taken in Detroit during her successful show and book tour that MGP & Associates was involved in helping to promote.
Race is a complicated issue
I've said that racism is a mental illness, and it is. And the subject of race is a complicated one that's at times muddled by people not taking time to listen to what's being said, as was the case with the Media Matters people.
That written, it's good this is out in the open for discussion.
While Dr. Laura has apologized for what was really a clumsy way of dealing with a racial issue in trying to show that blacks too use the term the N-word, what's forgotten is that Dr. Laura wasn't in the act of calling someone the N-word or intentionally referring to blacks in a derogatory way. That's the difference.
If that were the case, Mike Paul would not have turned to Dr. Laura during his painful divorce.
She may not be racist but she is clearly ignorant about this particular issue.
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