Samuel L. Jackson responds to Joe Rogan’s use of the N-word
nme.comSpotify podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience.Earlier this month, India.Arie shared a compilation of clips that featured Rogan using the N-word repeatedly and describing a Black neighbourhood as being similar to the Planet Of The Apes movie.Rogan has since apologised, telling his Instagram followers. “There’s been a lot of shit from the old episodes of the podcast that I wish I hadn’t said, or had said differently.
This is my take on the worst of it,” he wrote in the caption for the six-minute video.He started by saying this was “the most regretful and shameful thing I’ve had to talk about publicly,” before going on to say the compilation shared by Arie is made of clips “taken out of context of twelve years of conversations on my podcast.”“I know to most people, there’s no context in which a white person is ever allowed to say that word and I agree with that now.
I haven’t said it in years.”In a new interview, Jackson said it was “wrong” for Rogan to use the slur.“He is saying nobody understood the context when he said it,” the Pulp Fiction actor told The Times, after which he rolled his eyes, according to the interviewer.“But he shouldn’t have said it.
It’s not the context, dude – it’s that he was comfortable doing it. Say you’re sorry because you want to keep your money, but you were having fun and you say you did it because it was entertaining.”He was then asked whether Rogan’s use of the N-word lacked context, to which he replied: “It needs to be an element of what the story is about.
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