James Brown - the other one!

Celebrity hairdresser James Brown’s admission that he used the word “Nigger” to address black TV presenter, Ben Douglas, and his subsequent ludicrous apology is just another example of a ‘repressed racist’.

In recent pop culture, the controversial word is perceived as strictly for the use of US gangsta rappers, U.K grime artists, drug dealers, and any black person who feels the urge. However, the evolution of the N-word appears to agitate racists, like the middle-classed Mr Brown. It seems to have an effect much like the lone child observing, from afar, all the fun the other children are having in the playground, but not getting an invitation to join in.

Mr Brown has used the excessive consumption of alcohol, his familiarity with New York slang; which he claims he picked up among the many black friends he has in the ‘Big Apple’ and an irrelevant reference to his ‘cousins being with blacks' as valid reasons for addressing Mr Douglas in such a derogatory manner.

Having styled such celebrities such as Kate Moss, Angelina Jolie and Liv Tyler, it is not known whether Mr Brown has any black celebrity US clients, but I can hardly imagine him using the N-word in the presence of a black women like Jennifer Hudson, Beyonce or Oprah Winfrey.

In fact, I wish he would. Oprah would slap the taste out of his mouth.

If Mr Brown had any real understanding of the N-word, as he claims, he would have known it was wholly inappropriate for it to have left his lips. Mr. Brown is not from the ‘hood’, probably buys his drugs from an equally middle-classed drug dealer and would find himself in different circumstances had he actually greeted a nigger, instead of a black man, in that manner.

Meanwhile, Mr Douglas has had a death-threat posted on Twitter for his troubles.