Things got worse for Wilmore as “Trump” joked how they were so simpatico, “I can’t even tell where my regular, normal skin ends and where your black skin begins”.
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“Then I buttoned it with, um, a little colloquialism”, Wilmore added.
“I’m wrapping up my little speech and giving the president some props, telling him how much I appreciated him being the first black president”, Wilmore said Monday.
Yo, Barry, you did it, my n***a!’ Wilmore said.
When Ryan suggested that someone was the “butt of the joke” in using a racial epithet, Earnest replied, “I’m confident that Mr. Wilmore used the word by design”. And like the president himself, the reaction was mixed.
Larry Wilmore accepts the best talk show award for “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” at the Critics’ Choice Television Awards in the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Monday, June 10, 2013, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
“Any comedian who’s signed up to follow President Obama at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner is assuming one of the most hard tasks in comedy”.
Wilmore was referring to a column by “professional Beyoncé disliker” Piers Morgan, in which Morgan quoted Wilmore as calling Obama “n–r”.
Obama himself drew criticism for using the word when he said last June that the US has not shaken off a long history of racism just because it considers the use of the n-word socially unacceptable. “I take Mr. Wilmore at this words that he found that to be a powerful transformation just in his lifetime, and something he seemed to be pretty obviously proud of”.
“Are you saying that I called the president a “n****r”?” He added, “That’s disgusting I would never do that….” Very important. “N**ger” is what white people use to denigrate, demean and dehumanize black people.
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“Piers, you didn’t properly conjugate that slur”, Wilmore said.
