It depends on why you’re using the word. You can call someone a nigger as an insult or you can use the word to insult the word and diminish it. I think in this case the word was used to poke fun at it as it often is when used by Blacks.
Ain’t this some bullshit. It was the White House Corrrespondence Association that should be addressing this question. If I were Earnest I would have kicked that question back to the reporter.
“Excuse me, sir, but it was your association that hired him and put on the show. You guys didn’t screen his routine? Same Washington journalism fact checking I see.”
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Gosh, no questions about Larry’s CNN material…hold on, no mention at all…like Larry’s brutally true Wolf material disappeared into thin air! Amazing! The media can do something effectively across the board…
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I don’t know. You tell me.
It was Wilmore’s time – he can say what he wants, regardless of whether the White House defends or condemns it.
But seriously, he is the first black President – let people celebrate it (or complain about it) in whatever non-violent manner they choose.
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PBO addressed this best with his CPT joke at the same dinner. “CPT stands for ‘Jokes white people can’t tell.’”
Done, and done brilliantly.
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Exactly! You beat me to it. I had to explain to my family what he meant.
There is a huge, steaming pile of “doesn’t get it” about this subject out there that I just don’t understand.
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The Selective Literalism of the Fundamentalists has thoroughly hamstrung the GOP. When it suits them, they don’t get jokes, nuance, inference, irony, friendship.
They are serious as a train wreck when Other People are playful and affectionate in ways they can’t or won’t be. It’s sad in the way overdoses are sad. The tragedy is self-inflicted, but still makes me wonder and wince about the misery that dragged them to such an ugly end.
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The people taking issue with Wilmore’s use of the “N” word are the racists. “Hey - why is it OK for them to use that word but not us?”
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Are white people now telling our black president how he should feel about the n-word?
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RW misanthropes often characterize condemnation of the N word appellation as “PC.” Said misanthropes are now PC? That’s a rhetorical question…wingers are the most PC creatures on the planet.
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Richard Pryor used to use the word frequently in his routines, and then he stopped. When asked why, he said that he visited Africa and didn’t see any niggas there. Personally, I think that’s the best attitude for black comedians to take and wish Wilmore hadn’t used the word. Still it genuinely is different for a black person to use the term than for a white person. Wilmore he was using it to show his respect for Obama, something no white person could do. I may prefer Wilmore had done otherwise, but the controversy still is wildly overblown and indeed artificial.
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Sharpton’s probably upset Wilmore didn’t mention him in that MSNBC joke - the one where they’re getting rid of all their black journalists.
He’s just a professional rabble-rouser. If Obama understood the sentiment, why cant’ he?? Because he has to have a bone to pick with someone at all times. That’s his livelihood.
I don’t think that the right is angry and “outraged” that Wilmore used that word.
They are angry and “outraged” that that they can not use that word without people looking at them like they are bigoted idiots.
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I feel asleep, I did not see the event and I have not see one single clip of Wilmore’s performance on TV today,which is highly usual. The main stream media is totally ignoring it,like it never happened. He either totally bombed,or he was too controversial. I guess I am going to have to watch it on YouTube and decide for myself. I have never experienced such complete blackout of a performance like this before.
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Wilmore was absolutely merciless whenever he turned it on the press, and they did not like it. Talk about some institutionalized bias. Colbert came in and delivered very similar sentiments in Fauxservative White Bread flavor, and they ate it up. I love me some Colbert, but Larry delivered exactly what he should have Saturday night. I, for one, cannot wait to catch the Nightly tonight.
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Wilmore was hilarious. And absolutely bombed, because the guys he was skewering were right there in the room, and they did not want to hear what he was saying. But it was all true, and it was all 100% signature Larry Wilmore.
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Did you see how stone-faced Tweety was at that bit? About the only thing I could’ve wished for there would’ve been a highlight reel of Matthews asking idiotic questions and then pontificating about how incredible it is that nobody else is asking them.
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Obama is the coolest guy on this planet and far more sophisticated than anyone in the media, let alone the republicans.
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Leave Al Sharpton out of this unless you just need an excuse to blast him any chance you get as some do here often. How long does this man have to suffer for supporting Tawana Brawley 100 years ago - a girl who might add even had the FBI fooled. He’s come a long way since then and I like what he’s done with his life
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