Fuck having to be politically correct and no be allowed to speak freely in your own personal life.
If he said it on the show/on the air or at a PR event promoting the show, or anything else having to do with the show or network, that's different. However his personal phoen calls with his family shouldn't affect his show. A&E are pussies.
N*gger nowadays is a joke anyways, as it's used in every other rap song and between people in public everyday (including wiggas, latinos and people of every race who use it like a surfer would 'Dude'). It no longer infers the things it used to say, during the slavery days. Do you think if the situation was reversed and the Enquirer had a story about some black celebrity telling his son to dump his 'white cracker slut' girlfriend anything would come of it? I highly doubt they'd even print or buy the story in the first place.
Such double standards exist, American media is a joke (of course racism is worldwide but other countries don't have such a media fetish for it like the US of A does heh).