In his first appearance since roasting President Obama, Donald Trump, CNN and MSNBC at this weekend’s White House Correspondents Dinner, Larry Wilmore found a new person to scorch: Piers Morgan.
Speaking on his “Nightly Show,” Wilmore took the British journalist and former CNN personality to task for the way he interpreted his remarks, in which he praised Obama’s tenure as the first African-American commander-in-chief. Morgan chastised Wilmore for using a form of the N-word in his routine. Wilmore responded with a cultural history lesson for Morgan.
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The term “n—a,” explained Wilmore, who is African-American, “is a term of endearment some black people use between each other to take back that power.” Morgan’s use of the word in his article, on the other hand, is how “white people used to denigrate, demean and dehumanize black people,...
Speaking on his “Nightly Show,” Wilmore took the British journalist and former CNN personality to task for the way he interpreted his remarks, in which he praised Obama’s tenure as the first African-American commander-in-chief. Morgan chastised Wilmore for using a form of the N-word in his routine. Wilmore responded with a cultural history lesson for Morgan.
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The term “n—a,” explained Wilmore, who is African-American, “is a term of endearment some black people use between each other to take back that power.” Morgan’s use of the word in his article, on the other hand, is how “white people used to denigrate, demean and dehumanize black people,...
- 5/3/2016
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety - TV News
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