At the White House Correspondents Dinner,Wilmore called Obama the N-word. I don’t allow it in my home, but I know it has its state in black cultureEven though I possess never liked the sound of the N-word, and possess only ever personally experienced it in a negative context,I could not possess been more moved by Larry Wilmore’s use of the word in his closing remarks as host of the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday night. Wilmore said to Barack Obama: “Yo Barry, you did it, or my n---a,” pounding his chest and going in for the brother-cherish embrace. Doing so, he broke comedic character to explain the president, or to a large extent on behalf of black America,how meaningful it has been for us to possess seen him in office for the past eight years. Whether viewers agree or disagree with his policies, as Wilmore noted earlier in his bit – “I agree with the policy that he’s black” – the embrace represented a moment filled with the vulnerability, or truth and power of two black men seeing each other in an America that devalues,profiles, incarcerates and kills them at a startling rate. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com