Duane "Dog" Chapman: I'm not taking the chance on some motherf**ker. I don't care if she's a Mexican, a whore, whatever...it's not because she's black. It’s because we use he word n***er sometimes here.
I'm not going to take a chance ever in life for losing everything I've worked for for 30 years because some f**king n**er heard us say n***er and turned us into the Enquirer magazine. Our career is over. I'm not taking that chance at all, never in life. Never. Never.
If Lyssa [his daughter] was dating a n***er we would all say F*ck You. . .and you know that. If Lyssa brought a black guy home ya da da...it's not that they're black, it's none of that. It's that we use the word n***er. We don't mean you f*cking scum n***er without a soul. We don't mean that shit. But America would think we mean that. And we're not taking a chance on losing everything we got over a racial slur because our son goes with a girl like that. I can't do that Tucker. You can't expect Gary, Bonnie, Cecily, all them young kids to [garbled] because 'I'm in love for 7 months' - f*ck that! So, I'll help you get another job but you can not work here unless you break up with her and she's out of your life. I can't handle that shit. I got 'em in the parking lot trying to record us. I got that girl saying she's gonna wear a recorder...
Tucker Chapman: I don't even know what to say.
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This transcript puts Dog in the bucket with Michael Richards of the racial slur comedy troupe and Bill Richardson of the oh-is-maricon-a-slur? bigotry in translation.
The speaker is a person whose deeds, actions and relationships trend toward the inclusive and diverse. Yet under stress, all three produced some nasty language that reflects prejudice and bigotry. Then the cover-up begins, and the statements about previous actions somehow negating present words come out.
Do they think that everyone secretly shares their prejudices? Do they believe that the dehumanizing slurs are only words, and they deserve to be measured by their deeds? What are they thinking?
And Dog spelled it out pretty clearly that he's entitled to use racial slurs in private, in stating that his problem is not with the son's GF's race per se but with the danger she represents as someone who will tell the world he uses racial slurs.
There are two ways to never get caught saying the N word--one is the path he describes, which is to exclude from family and private associations anyone who you can see from the color of her skin would tell on you. The other is to just not say it. One path puts your fate in the hands of others, as shown. The other gives you complete control.
I can't imagine what the underlying set of assumptions are here that lead a person to destroy his career in an effort to preserve a habit that serves no apparent purpose, that of referring to others using slurs.
