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A white dentist has admitted that he might have used the N-word in relation to NWA.

Dental surgeon Paul Brown, who works at Aldeburgh and Framlingham Dental Practice in Suffolk, is under fire for allegedly using the racial slur in the workplace.

During a misconduct hearing on June 8th, he told the court that while speaking to his colleague about ring walk music, he may have said the N-word, but not in front of his patients.

“He may have asked me what NWA stood for, and it might have come out quickly,” he said, according to the East Anglian Daily Times. “It certainly would not have been mentioned in front of patients. I have got a number of Black patients, in fact, last Saturday I was treating a Black guy.”

He added, “One of my friends is married to a Black girl who is from that part of America where that music came from.””

Brown is facing a total of 25 charges, including shouting at colleagues over getting rid of a face mask. He also confessed to asking an Iraqi colleague to anglicise her name.

“I thought I would protect her,” he said. “There was a lot of tension in Suffolk regarding foreigners and asylum seekers. She was an Iraqi of Kurdish descent, and I know a lot of dentists who use English names to practice.”

He continued, “I thought it would be in her interests to anglicise her name, and I was wrong. I treated her differently to everybody else; I realise that was discrimination and I apologise to her for doing that.”

It’s unclear which NWA song Brown was referring to while discussing the walkout music with his colleague.