5 white U.S. Presidents who used the n-word - Chicago

5 white U.S. Presidents who used the n-word - Chicago

Of course, as the nation’s first black president, Obama has an unprecedented license to use the n-word in such situations. He was talking publicly about the nation’s history of racism, not using the slur behind closed doors to denigrate his fellow African-Americans. But many of the white men who preceded him in office used the n-word in private, history shows. In their cases, the context was invariably ugly.