BIG RACIST?
After seeing the "racist incident" between Charley and Emily on Channel 4 last night (in context), I think it's been an overreaction kicking Emily out of the house. But an understandable one.
She was clearly trying to be street-wise when telling Charley "you pushing it out, you n****r" as she danced. Culture is full of examples where black people have tried to "reclaim" the N-word, trying to nullify it through open use. Just look at black characters in Pulp Fiction, or countless hip-hop/rap tracks by singers like 50 Cent.
Certainly, it's a word you'd never treat as acceptable in general use, so it was still wrong of Emily to use it. But, as Charley accepted, it wasn't intended to be derogatory and she wasn't offended, just shocked.
To be honest, I think Charley tried to milk the situation a fair bit. She's quite the drama queen, so to have a potentially "controversial" incident happen around her amost a gift for the attention-seeker. Her endless talking about it afterwards (including a cryptic discussion in the bedroom with Ziggy) seemed to indicate this was true. To me, anyway.
It doesn't excuse Emily's remark, but if the situation had been better extinguished (not a chance once Shabz got wind of it), then BB may have just cautioned Emily very sternly. Instead, as the moment sparked quite a few subsequent chats and shocked faces from Nicky, the moment was blown out of proportion and Emily was given the boot six hours later.
It wouldn't have happened just one year ago, that's for sure. But clearly Channel 4 are taking no chances and even kicked Emily out in the middle of the night! She'd be forgiven for thinking it was just a bad dream.
Oh well. No eviction tonight, but two men are apparently set to enter the house: one gay, one bisexual.
After seeing the "racist incident" between Charley and Emily on Channel 4 last night (in context), I think it's been an overreaction kicking Emily out of the house. But an understandable one.
She was clearly trying to be street-wise when telling Charley "you pushing it out, you n****r" as she danced. Culture is full of examples where black people have tried to "reclaim" the N-word, trying to nullify it through open use. Just look at black characters in Pulp Fiction, or countless hip-hop/rap tracks by singers like 50 Cent.
Certainly, it's a word you'd never treat as acceptable in general use, so it was still wrong of Emily to use it. But, as Charley accepted, it wasn't intended to be derogatory and she wasn't offended, just shocked.
To be honest, I think Charley tried to milk the situation a fair bit. She's quite the drama queen, so to have a potentially "controversial" incident happen around her amost a gift for the attention-seeker. Her endless talking about it afterwards (including a cryptic discussion in the bedroom with Ziggy) seemed to indicate this was true. To me, anyway.
It doesn't excuse Emily's remark, but if the situation had been better extinguished (not a chance once Shabz got wind of it), then BB may have just cautioned Emily very sternly. Instead, as the moment sparked quite a few subsequent chats and shocked faces from Nicky, the moment was blown out of proportion and Emily was given the boot six hours later.
It wouldn't have happened just one year ago, that's for sure. But clearly Channel 4 are taking no chances and even kicked Emily out in the middle of the night! She'd be forgiven for thinking it was just a bad dream.
Oh well. No eviction tonight, but two men are apparently set to enter the house: one gay, one bisexual.
