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BuzzFeed Posts Old Video Of Tony Robbins Using N-Word During Presentation; Robbins’ Lawyer Responds

John Bickley

After publishing what the self-help guru has slammed as an “inaccurate, agenda-driven version of the past” accusing him of having “berated” abuse victims and made “inappropriate sexual advances” on women, BuzzFeed News has now published a video from the 1980s showing a young Tony Robbins using the N-word when describing his attempts to help black members of an audience resist others gaining “control” of them through the use of an offensive word.

“The video shows a young Robbins making a presentation to a small crowd in the 1980s, and describing a ‘intense’ encounter with what he called a predominantly ‘militant black’ audience at a previous event,” reports BuzzFeed, which is now asking readers to submit their “experiences” with Robbins, who made critical comments about the #MeToo movement last year. “The self-help coach said that after audience members challenged him about why he only used ‘white examples’ in his teachings, he explained to one man that if he didn’t stop taking offense about matters of race he would ‘never be free.'”

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