Wow... the irony!

Esquire.

If he claims he doesn't use "nigger" pejoratively, then how does he use it? Is it like how "fag" has non-insulting uses nowadays?

I don't know that I'd call it a racist rant; more like graceless. It's ineloquent and shit, but the idea that he seems to be expressing is that it's ruder to use the n-word around black people than around white people. And isn't that true?

Of course, I guess a reasonable person would prefer to cut the n-word from their vocabulary than black people from their lives. But we didn't make him famous because we liked how reasonable he was.

This guy had a couple of chances. (Remember when he was arrested last year?) Glad he is off the air.

I thought he was still in a Mexican jail for chasing a suspect over the border and kidnapping him. He's a lovely, lovely man.

"I'm not going to take a chance ever in life of losing everything I've worked for for 30 years cause some fucking nigger heard us say nigger and turned us into the Enquirer magazine - our career is over!"

That's gotta hurt: it wasn't some black person who did this to him. It was HIS OWN SON who recorded Dog talking like that, who sold the tape to the Enquirer, who ruined Dog's career. Perhaps it is possible to use the n-word without racist intent, but apparently his son didn't think that's how Dog meant it. The son was so offended by his father's racist talk and ridiculous demand that he stop dating the girl he loves that he ruined his father's career, put himself out of a job, and probably sundered that family bond irreparably. There's no way that Enquirer paid him enough cash to make that worth it--the money has to just be the icing on the cake of showing the whole world that his old man is the ass that the son always knew he was.

The chatter will of course be about the TV-star father. But I think the real story here is that his son comes away looking like a golden character. Bravo.

It makes me sad that people still think that way.

I thought he was still in a Mexican jail for chasing a suspect over the border and kidnapping him. He's a lovely, lovely man.

Look, putting Chapman completely aside, Andrew Luster was a complete bastard. He deserves everything he got and more. As in, he's one of those people that shooting is too good for. To quote:

The trial went ahead without him and on January 21, after two days of deliberations, the jury found Luster guilty of 86 of 87 charges against him (many of which had been added to California state law in the wake of the 1996 federal drug-induced sexual assault law) and deadlocked on a single poisoning charge.

Luster was convicted of 20 counts of drug-induced rape, 17 counts of raping an unconscious victim, and multiple counts of sodomy and oral copulation by use of drugs. Luster was sentenced to six years for each of the 20 counts of rape (to be served consecutively) and another four years for poisoning, for a total of 124 years in prison. Luster was also ordered to pay a $1 million fine.

And as a side note, the charge against the Chapmans was actually dropped. They might try and re-charge them, but it's unlikely.

I never said he wasn't a scumbag. But going across international boundaries and acting as if you're still in the US -- apprehending suspects even though you're not actually a cop -- is going too far.

Wow 124 years. Before 1996 it wasn't even a crime. However, doing that to the 3 woman who were unconscious is very shitty and wrong. I wonder how many years he would have gotten if he mutilated, tortured and killed the women. I guess let that be a lesson to future rapists.

The man has a mullet and people are surprised he's a racist.

Hehe.

If memory serves me, I believe this is the same son Dog refused to help avoid jailtime on drug charges thinking it would do him good. I think the kid just got out of the clink.

Looks like Tucker got the last laugh. I hope the Enquirer paid him enough to move off the island and get some plastic surgery.

That is messed up how Dog was going off like that with the n word. I put up a video showing how I feel about the whole thing. It has some extra footage of this bullshi_and the story of how he became a bounty hunter. The video is called “ Dog Duane Chapman Bounty Hunter "N" Word - Talking With Dave #4”. It’s at
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4oC8OgFkd38
My videos are kind of…. Different.

All of the comments in this thread, as well as the original post, are blatantly classist. Dude may be racist, but heaping another term of marginalization on top of the damage that has been done accomplishes NOTHING. Does calling Dog "white trash" make you feel better about yourself as white people? Why can't you call him out on his racism and refrain from using a term that fuctionally creates another level of racism- because he's white trash, you're of the "clean" white race? Doesn't this seem slightly problematic?
"The man has a mullet and people are suprised he's a racist." A good percentage of Capitol Hill hipsters have mullets. Does that make them racists? They are, but that's not the point I'm making here.

I agree with wtf. All Sloggers are inherently racist, due to their class. All white people, particularly men, are known to be racist.

I call for a national strike and day of solidarity against this post. Meet at the Federal Building on Monday, and we will march to The Stranger's office!!!

here's what i don't get: a&e follows dog and family around all the time. they occasionally curse and that gets bleeped out. so if the chapmans are in the habit of using the n-word, then why has a&e never shown that on an episode?

i suspect that they signed an agreement with dog to cover up the use of the very language that they are now canceling his show over. that makes them hypocrites.

on the other hand, dog has always struck me as being very up front about what he is about. he is blunt, and honest. a complex person but not a very nuanced thinker. on the show, his interactions with african-americans are totally in line with the claims he makes in his rant. i think that the things he said in his tirade are really what he thinks, and should be taken at face value. not to defend his ideas, just to say that that he should not get lumped together with every negative stereotype available.

he's not racist because he's civil towards black people when he interacts with them on camera?!? please.

well if you're going to take what he said at face value, you can't discount mattymatt's [3] point - he prefers the word over the people it refers to: "not that they're black... it's because we use the word nigger." oh, okay.

Dog wanted his son to stop dating his girlfriend so that he wouldn't be forced to deal with the fact that she is of a different race and thus clumped into a different category he calls "nigger". He refused to start calling her by her name, an act that would have shown that he recognized she was an individual and not just part of a racial "outgroup," as in not white. Discrimination is defined as "treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit". Dog didn't mention anything about her character, simply that the category she belongs to will never have a different name than "nigger". If this isn't racial discrimination, I don't know what is.

wtf @ 14:
Thank you, I totally agree with you.

I also think that the term "white trash" is racist. The use of "white" to modify "trash" implies that "regular" trash is non-white, so we have to specify that we mean "white" trash as opposed to just regular black or latino trash.

I also hate that many people call poor white people white trash. It is awful to call anyone trash, esp if the person is being called trash because they live in a trailer park.

The guy has a photo of George Dubya Bush in his office. They wear American flags and pray before every meal, bounty and bowel movement.

Just another piece of shit faux-christian who probably votes for closeted gay Republican politicians with wide stances.

And people are shocked about him using the n-word?

Fuck him and his show.

#14 - You're absolutely right. Using the term "white trash" is absolutely classist. I probably have a false sense of entitlement in using it, because I grew up a 20-acre farm, in the middle of nowhere - because I went to the prom with a 26 year old guy with a mullet and a muscle car... where I come from white people refer to themselves as this quite often.

All that said, I also can't recommend, enough, Jim Goad's book, The Redneck Manifesto - a great perspective on (white) racism.

Fuck, another Slog pile-on. This guy's son will come out of this looking "golden"? Talking to you, #6! News, brah: Nobody will come out of this looking golden, including his creepy snitchy son. But go on and polish your brass Jr. Commissar medal, and feel good about yourself.

Kelly, people where you come from may use the term as what, ironic self-deprecation(? How do you see the term ? What is its purpose?), but now that you've "made it out," why are you using it to generate more-ethical-than-thou blog fodder? The only intent I see it serving it marginalization- you distancing yourself from how it is used where you grew up to shove the people who still identify with that community into a box. I don't understand how it's an issue of entitlement here when your purpose seems to be largely negative (as opposed to, say, black people reclaiming the n-word by spelling it nigga and using it in solidarity).

Racist Watch: nice attempt at parody, but you're not responding to what I'm saying and not saying anything new yourself. Please try again. For real.

Being a Brit who's very fond of Americana, I've always found Chapman's show absolutely compulsive. The mere concept of bail bondsmen is as weird as hell for people living over here, and the whole Chapman family is like nothing I've ever seen before. The mullets! The family prayer meetings! The cage fighting! I watch the show in a sort of anthropological fascination; I'm actually rather disappointed it's been cancelled. (That said, of course, his use of the word is inexcusable.)

#23 - what might be hard to understand is, that where I'm from, the WT term just doesn't have the power that it should, or that it does here on the politically correct West Coast - the power to hurt or offend the people that it's referring to. It's laughable and common. People use it, and it just isn't that shocking.

I can't tell you how hard it was, for me, to convince people when I showed up in dowtown Detroit for college, with my trashy blonde hair, and accent right outta the movie FARGO, that I wasn't an ignorant racist. I worked hard to prove people wrong.

When someone as cliche as Dog, big household name, proves everybody RIGHT - well, it really offends people like me, who've struggled against the "black-hating" stereotype. It's more offensive than I can really explain.

Kelly-
Cool. I apologize for misunderstanding.
Respect,
WTF

WTF - and my respect to you - it's so important to talk and think about these things, from all the different perspectives...

The Dog-Driscoll connection!

http://theresurgence.com/in_dog_we_trust