People should just lighten up. I am sure Obama wasnât offended and understood all the while knowing the Press (whom Obama disdains with reason) would make a big fâng deal out of it. I am glad Josh addressed it. Letâs move one from all this faux outrage from folks in the media and especially from racist republicans
âWhen a reporter asked Earnest if he thought Wilmore crossed the line by calling Obama âthe n-word,â Earnest said that it wasnât the first time a comedianâs performance at the correspondentsâ dinner had made headlines.â
WHO? Stop protecting them. Was it Ed Henry? I bet it was Ed Henry. That smirking douche could piss me off just by breathing in my proximity, and this smells like the typical play for poutrage from the conservativesâŚâhow come they get to say it and we donâtâŚhypocrisy hypocrisyâŚwhereâs the outrage at Wilmore for calling the POTUS the n-word?â, which roughly translates to âIâm a white racist fucknut who is pissed off that I donât get to drop n-bombs anymore, particularly because having one of them in the WH really REALLY made me want to start using that word again all the time.â
A black man dropping the N-word is just so much worse than a Kentucky Confederate war memorial not being torn down because the latter celebrates everyday use of the word by white slaveowners and in normal white discourse that offends mere black people while the former is just plain offensive for white people to have to hear.
Do we not have better things to worry about?
(And why am I spending time reading this story and replying to it?)
As someone who has a first hand experience with a different form of racism, anti-semitism, I think that level of scrutiny should be different for jokes made by a member of the discriminated minority and even a well meaning member of the majority. Each potentially racially charged joke should be judged in context and a large part of the context is the person making the joke. A black (or jewish or choose your minority) comedian is allowed much more latitude with the black (jewish, choose your minority) jokes using racially charged terms. While it is not really up to me to judge, I do not think that was in poor taste (in fact it was very complimentary to both the president and the progress the country made on the equality front).
Interestingly in his own speech Obama made a very relevant comment regarding CPT (though in recent CPT controversy I had no problem with de Blasioâs joke given the context as well as his family situation; but once again while I believe there were not many objections from the black community â it is not up to me to judge).
Anyone, I mean anyone, who thinks that the President or that black people should feel offended by that closing by Wilmore, is simply not a person whose opinion is at all serious or worth a shit on the matter.
Iâm glad white Republicans and journalists are telling us just how upset we should be that another black man called President Obama, âmy niggaâ. I feel very ashamed about the hundreds- literally- of times I said it while watching him speak. I feel ashamed of all of the times Iâve said to family and my closest friends right before giving them a pound or a hug.
Some black people feel they shouldnât say it. Thatâs their right. Iâm not one of them. White people policing black language is another form of white supremacy. Just because it makes you uncomfortable to hear it come out of my mouth when talking to someone whom with I have a shared experience doesnât have anything to do with me. I didnât create the word, but I sure as hell own it.
Hereâs a must-read on the subject. http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/03/politics-and-the-african-american-human-language/284228/
So, lets get this straight; the people who have spent 8 years denigrating, belittling and disrespecting Obama got all upset because somebody called him âmy niggaâ ? Why am I completely unamazed?
Al Sharpton? Al f----ng Sharpton? Allowing him to criticize anyone about using incorrect language is just a joke. What next, will William Perry criticize the menu as being too high in calories and fat?
Although it wouldnât have been nearly as eloquent, I couldâve written your post myself. When I finally saw my very best friend in the world after my mom died, with tears streaming down our faces, the first thing he said to me was, âmy niggaâ. There arenât words to express the intensity of the love and emotion those two words conveyed. âMy niggaâ can mean a thousand things depending on the inflection, but on that day it meant âmy family, my heartâ. Thatâs exactly what Wilmore meant.
Joan Walsh said it best on Twitter.
And this:
Iâve been right there. Usually the first thing I say when I see a cousin I havenât seen in years.
Yes. Only the assholes donât get the difference between a word used in the spirit of love and the same word used with hate in the heart.
This nearly seventy-year-old white woman would NEVER use that term, joking or not. I donât get to. And thatâs fine with me. It should be fine with everyone.
What is also fine with me is that Larry Wilmore gets to use it, and he did it well. His remarks that included that phrase were clearly an expression of gratitude and brotherhood with Obama . It seemed like a kind of âsweetâ thing to me, that finally, a man like Wilmore could stand before the world and be pleased that The President of the United States is someone who can relate to him and the way he expressed the sentiment. And Obama clearly understood.
For those who want to piss on the moment, shut up. Not everything is about you.
Just another variation of the âAll Lives Matterâ bullshit attempt to portray black people as the real racists.
Josh should have gotten C.J. Cregg (Allison Janney) back, to do the JackalââHe was big Mack daddy super black stylinââ.
It was fine. I was fine. My children were fine. We âdiscussedâ it just like we have discussed Twain and his writings. We have discussed why we can never say the word but others can. Weâre fine. Some people need to get over their own self importance and why it should matter to THEM.
Gotta tell you that you have made my day! Hang in there!
GOP: Mr. President, how dare you own that word!! How dare you attempt to make our dog whistles, snide remarks, and outright discrimination powerless against you. We wonât stand for another uppity⌠aw shit, do you see what you make us do?!