“CP time” is shorthand for the phrase, “coloured people’s time”, which refers to the negative stereotype that black Americans are often running late.
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The joke set off angry reactions on social media with commentators criticising Hillary Clinton and NY city mayor Bill de Blasio.
Mr. Odom, who is black and appeared to be in on the joke, interrupted: “That’s not – I don’t like jokes like that, Bill”. “It was clearly a staged show”, he said on CNN.
The mayor said in an interview with CNN that people were missing the point.
Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio engaged in an awkward back-and-forth at a comedy show put on by journalists in New York City on Saturday.
Now that he’s explained it… huh.
Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton takes part in a gun control panel with (L-R) Rita Kestenbaum, Marie Delus, Erica Smegielski, Natasha Christopher, Sandy Phillips, and Representative Steve Israel (D-NY) in Port Washington, New York April 11, 2016.
“Clinton then stepped in to complete the brief gaggable gag with an assurance that her belated supporter meant, “‘Cautious Politician Time.’ I’ve been there”. “Took you long enough”, which drew cheers and laughs from the crowd. Clinton poked fun at de Blasio for his endorsement coming a little late in the game for Clinton’s taste.
Clinton dryly replied, “Cautious politician time”.
“That’s not – I don’t like jokes like that, Bill”, Odom said.
Maybe deBlasio and Clinton – the definition of the NY liberal elite – thought they could get away with the joke since they’re Democrats who are the very definition of “tolerance”.
“When you’re a politician and you’re working, serving the people, you should be more sensitive and think out how other people are going to feel about what your statements are going to be”, another man said.
The New York Daily News was especially critical with their front page headline.
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Mrs. Clinton has overwhelmingly won the support of black voters and will be counting on them again next week in NY. The entire exchange was made that much worse by the fact that Hamilton’s Leslie Odom Jr., a black man made famous for playing a white man in a production that white people love, was also on stage.
