Dog The Bounty Hunter Latest Celeb Caught Using "N" Word
In our efforts to sanitize the world of all things unpleasant (can't someone do something about Paris and Britney?) we are now embroiled in the next "Imusgate," this time the offender/victim is Duane "Dog" Chapman from A&E's "Dog the Bounty Hunter". The show, as you can ascertain from the title, is about a bounty hunter, with camera's following Dog and his extended bounty-hunting family as they track down criminals and bad guys on the loose.
I've caught the show a few of times (which has been canceled due to this flare-up) and not once have I picked up on any overt racial vibes from Dog or anyone in his family, that said, this audio clip is pretty damning. It seems Dog is angry with his son Tucker and goes off on a paranoid tirade, which in part attacks Tucker's girlfriend, who happens to be black. What everyone seems to fail in seeing, is that if Dog and his family were TRULY racist, not in a trillion years would anyone, let alone Dog's son, even associate with people of varying degrees of racial diversity. And they certainly wouldn't date someone outside their racial circle.
Trust me, racists teach their children early on who they can or can't date, if Duane hated any racial group, Tucker wouldn't even entertain the idea.
I've listened to the audio and while it is offensive in its use of the "N" word, an offense on the ears and mind, the main feeling I got from Dog is that he far more paranoid than he is racist. His main issue is he is afraid that Tucker's girlfriend will betray the family if an offensive word is uttered in her presence. Which, considering the salty and gritty nature of their world and social status, is pretty likely to happen within the everyday Chapman household. Not cool, but certainly not unexpected considering these people are bounty hunters who deal with the most unsavory elements of society. Proper etiquette and the King's English does NOT apply.
And lo and behold, exactly what Dog is worrying about happened. Someone taped him going off and using socially unacceptable terms that "white" people should know better than to use, and then subsequently leaked said tape to the press to destroy "all he's worked for." Kind of ironic actually.
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