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09-22-2016, 12:00 AM
Don King uses N-word while introducing Donald Trump
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In a rambling introduction, the 85-year-old King related a conversation he said he once had with the late singer Michael Jackson.*
King said he once told Jackson that, as a black person in America, "'if you're poor, you're a poor Negro. I would use the N-word. But if you're rich, you're a rich Negro. If you are intelligent, intellectual, you're an intellectual Negro. If you're a dancing and sliding and gliding n*****, I mean Negro, you are a dancing and sliding and gliding Negro.'" Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/21/don-king-donald-trump-n-word/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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In a rambling introduction, the 85-year-old King related a conversation he said he once had with the late singer Michael Jackson.*
King said he once told Jackson that, as a black person in America, "'if you're poor, you're a poor Negro. I would use the N-word. But if you're rich, you're a rich Negro. If you are intelligent, intellectual, you're an intellectual Negro. If you're a dancing and sliding and gliding n*****, I mean Negro, you are a dancing and sliding and gliding Negro.'" Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/21/don-king-donald-trump-n-word/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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